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
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.
men opinion ill
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
mean men opinion
Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
taught-us opinion remember
I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.
criticism opinion passages
That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
opinion quotations
Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.
opinion argument conversation
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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.
definition places proper true words
Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
broken promises
Promises and Pye-Crusts - are made to be broken
ad bite flea fleas hath proceed smaller
So, naturalists observe, a flea - Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum
art seeing vision
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.