Author: Jonathan Swift

Quotes

May you live all the days of your life.

May you live all the days of your life.

- 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

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

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

- 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

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

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

- 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

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

- Jonathan Swift

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