Jonathan Swift Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• Rebukes are easy from our betters,
  From men of quality and letters;
  But when low dunces will affront,
  What man alive can stand the brunt?

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Quality, Alive

  Jonathan Swift, “The Sick Lion And The Ass”

• Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

  Jonathan Swift

  Optimism, Quality, Share

• There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

  Jonathan Swift

  Order, Quality, Deceit

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1080, Delphi Classics

• 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

• I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, House, Quality

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.516

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