Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

"When the world has once begun to use us ill and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony as men do to a whore."
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"When the world has once begun to use us ill and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony as men do to a whore."
Jonathan Swift
"Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."
Jonathan Swift
"I heard the little bird say so."
Jonathan Swift
"What some invent the rest enlarge."
Jonathan Swift
"When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
Jonathan Swift
"111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best."
Jonathan Swift
"Bread is the staff of life."
Jonathan Swift
"They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives."
Jonathan Swift
"There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy."
Jonathan Swift
"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday."
Jonathan Swift
"An excuse is a lie guarded."
Jonathan Swift
"Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives."
Jonathan Swift
"We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same."
Jonathan Swift
"She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork."
Jonathan Swift
"The first springs of great events like those of great rivers are often mean and little."
Jonathan Swift
"I won't quarrel with my bread and butter."
Jonathan Swift
"There's none so blind as they that won't see."
Jonathan Swift
"That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy."
Jonathan Swift
"She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth."
Jonathan Swift
"Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age."
Jonathan Swift
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