Jonathan Swift Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

  Jonathan Swift

  Art, Animal, Ears

  Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift ...”, p.125

• I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians - I will not speak of my own trade - soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hate, Animal, Love Is

  Jonathan Swift (2016). “Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

• If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

  Jonathan Swift

  Beauty, Women, Math

  Jonathan Swift (1826). “Gulliver's Travels”

• Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hate, Animal, Men

  Letter to Alexander Pope, 29 Sept. 1725

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Children, Fighting, Animal

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.615

• The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

  Jonathan Swift

  Animal, Air, Tongue

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.610

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