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
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.
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.
ate bold risk
It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
knowledge pretend pretense
Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
places proper true words
Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style.