Jonathan Swift Quotes About Romance

Quotes about: Romance

• The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Marriage, Time

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

• A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

  Jonathan Swift

  Love, Book, Passion

  Jonathan Swift, Deane Swift, Thomas Birch, Thomas Wilkes, Thomas Hawkesworth (1768). “The Works of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift: Miscellanies in prose”, p.366

• A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

  Jonathan Swift

  Romance, Ingredients, Degenerates

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.582

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