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
time people giving
No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
people invention
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
people teeth weight
Whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say? Their utmost malice cannot make Your head, or tooth, or finger ache; Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face, Or put one feature out of place.
men giving people
There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.
wise people solitude
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
people bird fruit
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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.
people coward emergencies
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
people madness fit
Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.
birthday people soul
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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.