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
humor men laughing
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
wise men rogues
A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
lying hype desire
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
sarcastic sarcasm glasses
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
hurt military enemy
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
hate men animal
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
careless
The more careless, the more modish.
two example flattery
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
love cold capricious
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
men weather together
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.