Jonathan Swift Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

  Jonathan Swift

  Jobs, Cutting, Should Have

  'Verses on the Upright Judge'

• I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Common Sense, Religion

  'Thoughts on Religion' (1765)

• I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

  Jonathan Swift

  Prayer, Sunday, Journey

  'Polite Conversation' (1738) dialogue 2

• Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Law, Church

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724”, p.332

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