Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swiftwas an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth30 November 1667
CountryIreland
onions should
Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.
men company persons
Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
christian spiritual men
When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.
taken aeneas giving
Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.
degrees bulls mouths
What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.
christian suffering-of-others bears
It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.
real vision invisible
Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.
sitting standing
T is as cheap sitting as standing.
wine judging temptation
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age...
hunger clock
My hunger serves me instead of a clock.
passion reason
God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.
yesterday acknowledge-you world
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
life-and-death giving physicians
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
believe justice heaven
I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.