Author: Jonathan Swift

Quotes

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

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

- 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

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

- Jonathan Swift

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

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

May you live all the days of your life.

May you live all the days of your life.

- Jonathan Swift

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

- 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

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