Jonathan Swift Quotes
+32We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
- Jonathan Swift
+24No wise man ever wished to be younger.
- Jonathan Swift
+1What some invent, the rest enlarge.
- Jonathan Swift
+1War! that mad game the world so loves to play.
- Jonathan Swift
+1Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.
- Jonathan Swift
+1Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
- Jonathan Swift
+1Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
- Jonathan Swift
+1Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
- Jonathan Swift
+1Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
- Jonathan Swift
+1Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
- Jonathan Swift
+1Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
- Jonathan Swift
+1Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
- Jonathan Swift
+1For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
- Jonathan Swift
+1I heard the little bird say so.
- Jonathan Swift
+1A lie is an excuse guarded.
- Jonathan Swift
+1I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
- Jonathan Swift
+1Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
- Jonathan Swift
+1He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
- Jonathan Swift
+1Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
- Jonathan Swift
+1Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
- Jonathan Swift
0A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
- Jonathan Swift
