Jonathan Swift quotes

Books, the children of the brain. (Jonathan Swift)
When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
Jonathan Swift
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Jonathan Swift
May you live every day of your life.
Jonathan Swift
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
Jonathan Swift
Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
Jonathan Swift
Vision is seeing the invisible.
Jonathan Swift
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift
Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance.
Jonathan Swift
...one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good. (Jonathan Swift)
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
Jonathan Swift
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
Jonathan Swift
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
Jonathan Swift
Laws are like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Jonathan Swift
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. (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.
Jonathan Swift
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift
To o get angry is like to revenge yourself for the guilt of others.
Jonathan Swift