Jonathan Swift Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher

  "Thoughts on various subjects (Further thoughts on various subjects)". Book by Jonathan Swift, 1745.

• 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 said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

  Jonathan Swift

  Success, Art, Men

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms" ch. 5 (1726)

• For though, in nature, depth and height
  Are equally held infinite:
  In poetry, the height we know;
  'Tis only infinite below.

  Jonathan Swift

  Beauty, Art, Depth

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841”, p.654

• Good 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

  Art, People, Literature

• hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

  Jonathan Swift

  Money, Art, Winning

• In all I wish, how happy should I be,
  Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee?
  So weak thou art that fools thy power despise;
  And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

  Jonathan Swift

  Life, Wise, Art

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The works of Jonathan Swift, containing papers not hitherto publ. With memoir of the author by T. Roscoe”, p.682

• O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

  Jonathan Swift

  Art, Children, Writing

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author”, p.354

• In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

  Jonathan Swift

  Art, Oratory, Public Speaking

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1801). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin”, p.8

• This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was full of Sap, full of Leaves, and full of Boughs: But now, in vain does the busy Art of Man pretend to vie with Nature, by tying that withered Bundle of Twigs to its sapless Trunk: It is at best but the Reverse of what it was; a Tree turned upside down, the Branches on the Earth, and the Root in the Air.

  Jonathan Swift

  Art, Nature, Lying

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.551

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