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
money
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
ashamed man wiser
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
bold eat man
He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.
bold eat food man
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
censure eminent man pays public tax
Censure is the the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent
almost fall fourteen girls love shall soon
I have almost done with harridans, and shall soon become old enough to fall in love with girls of fourteen
happiness perpetual possession
Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
bewitched last protest sparing took water
Indeed, Madame, your ladyship is very sparing of your tea; I protest the last I took was no more than water bewitched
consult ends private
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends
advice expect mankind possible
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?
greatest ignorance inventions printing produced
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing
men broomsticks mortals
Surely mortal man is a broomstick!
law eleven possession
Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.
truth devil shame
Tell truth, and shame the devil.