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
hate world charity
I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
time world lasts
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
sarcasm glasses world
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
yesterday acknowledge-you world
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
real genius world
When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.
circles world down-and
I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.
moon world passages
I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.
world this-world inconstancy
There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
world this-world inconsistency
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
differences mind world
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
faith law world
A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
understanding together world
Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
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.