Jonathan Swift Quotes & Quotations

Jonathan Swift Quotes

» In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

» Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.

» One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.

» Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.

» There's none so blind as they that won't see.

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

» Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

» Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.

» I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

» Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.

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