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
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
time world lasts
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
lasts these-days live-every-day
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
believe lasts saws
Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.
genius prodigies last-words
Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
against appears dunces genius true
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
art seeing vision
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
age-and-aging god grow men merely sacrifice virtuous
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings
change comrades stories
Faith! He must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
expressly heaven ignorant
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly
child daughter pride war
War is the child of Pride, and Pride the daughter of Riches.
butter looks melt mouth
She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth
animals children diversion fighting imitation sorts
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are an imitation of fighting