Jonathan Swift Quotes About Praise

Quotes about: Praise

• 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”

• It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sarcasm, Men, Vices

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.612

• All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

  Jonathan Swift

  Poppies, Praise, Infusion

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.520

• Praise is the daughter of present power.

  Jonathan Swift

  Daughter, Praise

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.897, Delphi Classics

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