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
freedom slave freeman
I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.
men talent figures
It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.
believe lasts saws
Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.
wall tongue ears
Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.
satire dunces
When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.
war hobbes states
Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.
deeds
You must take the will for the deed.
lying bears talent
Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.
contracted curing false latter life opinions taken
The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
balanced degree equal fits next pain pleasure spending year
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues