Jonathan Swift Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.

  Jonathan Swift

  Fall, Giving, Cooking

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author”, p.114

• No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

  Jonathan Swift

  Time, People, Giving

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.222

• Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

  Jonathan Swift

  Strong, Pain, Irritation

• There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, People, Giving

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.206

• All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Science, Astrology

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1766). “The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates, with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.194

• With a whirl of thought oppressed
  I sink from reverie to rest.
  An horrid vision seized my head,
  I saw the graves give up their dead.

  Jonathan Swift

  Giving Up, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Jonathan Swift, Alexander Norman Jeffares (1992). “The selected poems”

• Careful observers may foretell the hour
  (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r.
  While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er
  Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.

  Jonathan Swift

  Rain, Cat, Giving

  Jonathan Swift (1984). “Jonathan Swift”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press

• Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

  Jonathan Swift

  Friends, Believe, Men

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author”, p.359

• Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.

  Jonathan Swift

  Taken, Aeneas, Giving

  Jonathan Swift (2010). “The Battle of the Books: And Other Works, Including 'A Modest Proposal'”, p.187, The Floating Press

• Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.

  Jonathan Swift

  Giving, Guests, Able

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.332

• Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

  Jonathan Swift

  Life And Death, Giving, Physicians

  Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

• I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.

  Jonathan Swift

  Names, Giving, Spades

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author”, p.78

• It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

  Jonathan Swift

  Ignorance, Giving, Together

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