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
child daughter pride war
War is the child of Pride, and Pride the daughter of Riches.
advice warning mankind
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
war fire water
I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.
war hobbes states
Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.
war differences long
Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.
military war games
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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
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