Jonathan Swift Quotes About Happiness

Quotes about: Happiness

• If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

  Jonathan Swift

  Happiness, Success, Heaven

  Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh, 12 - 13 Aug. 1720 See Luther 3; Steele 2

• All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

  Jonathan Swift

  Happiness, Pain, Years

  "Complete Works of Jonathan Swift".

• For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

  Jonathan Swift

  Happiness, Possession, Deceived

  "A Modest Proposal and Other Prose".

• So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

  Jonathan Swift

  Happiness, Men, Perfect

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.420

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