Quotes by Jonathan Swift

How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so...

#Advice

A lie is an excuse guarded

#Lies

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign,...

#Genius

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

#Hate, #Religion

Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in...

#Law And Lawyers

Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only...

#Mankind, #Politicians

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time,...

#Passion

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and...

#Jonathan Swift

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

#Jonathan Swift

He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.

#Jonathan Swift

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever...

#Jonathan Swift

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

#Jonathan Swift