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
conceited well-said wells
Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
wine drunk should
This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.
atheist names atheism
... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.
taken heaven atheism
Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.
class firsts titles
It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
business men imagination
Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.
food sea swim
They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.
memories men literature
Observation is an old man's memory.
dirty men masters
Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.
men house mind
I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he shewed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.
running book greek
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.
cutting razors lost
It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.
running oil sides
The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
book language bigs
Big-endians and small-endians.