Quotes by Jonathan Swift

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

#Ideas

The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the...

#Inventions

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire...

#Lies

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

#Money

Observation is an old man's memory.

#Observation

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn...

#Preachers And Preaching

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion

#Men, #Prejudice

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it...

#Pleasure

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off

#Reason

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong,...

#Shame

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

#Age, #Talent, #Youth

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more...

#Universe