92 Quotations by Jonathan Swift
- 61. Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with ...
- 62. Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
- 63. Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
- 64. Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
- 65. Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
- 66. Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own, w ...
- 67. She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
- 68. Style may be defined as the proper words in the proper places.
- 69. The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
- 70. The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
- 71. The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
- 72. The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false op ...
- 73. The most positive men are the most credulous.
- 74. The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
- 75. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet w ...
- 76. The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w ...
- 77. There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
- 78. There is nothing in this world constant, but inconsistancy.
- 79. There's none so blind as they that won't see.
- 80. Two friendships in two breasts requires the same aversions and desires.
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