Author: Jonathan Swift

Quotes

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

- Jonathan Swift

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

- Jonathan Swift

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

- Jonathan Swift

May you live all the days of your life.

May you live all the days of your life.

- Jonathan Swift

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

- Jonathan Swift

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

- Jonathan Swift

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

- Jonathan Swift

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

- Jonathan Swift

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

- Jonathan Swift

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