Jonathan Swift Quotes

Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style.

There was all the world and his wife.

Most sorts of diversion in men children and other animals are in imitation of fighting.

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

When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

Very few men properly speaking live at present but are providing to live another time.

And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.