Jonathan Swift Quotes

"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout."
-Jonathan Swift

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
-Jonathan Swift

"One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid."
-Jonathan Swift

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
-Jonathan Swift in Art quotes.

"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."
-Jonathan Swift

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another."
-Jonathan Swift

"Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived."
-Jonathan Swift

"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. "
-Jonathan Swift

"Every dog must have his day."
-Jonathan Swift in Animals quotes.

"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping."
-Jonathan Swift

"Books, the children of the brain."
-Jonathan Swift in Books quotes.

"We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other."
-Jonathan Swift

"I row after health like a waterman..."
-Jonathan Swift

"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."
-Jonathan Swift in Money quotes.

"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."
-Jonathan Swift

"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."
-Jonathan Swift

"Fine words! I wonder where you stole them."
-Jonathan Swift

"There is nothing in this world constant, but inconsistancy."
-Jonathan Swift

"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind."
-Jonathan Swift in Death quotes.