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
judging age literature
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
mistake literature
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
art people literature
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
men pay literature
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
drinking bottles literature
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
style literature definitions
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
literature affection ailments
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
memories men literature
Observation is an old man's memory.
literature poison beast
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
rogues literature fiddlers
He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
profound understanding literature
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
leave passions stronger though weaker
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after
applied best interest laws whose
Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them
blades country deserves ears essential grass grew grow race service together whoever
Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together