Famous Quotes by Jonathan Swift

Below are famous quotes by Jonathan Swift - Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 - 1745).

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

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

I row after health like a waterman...

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

May you live all the days of your life.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.

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

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

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