Jonathan Swift Quotes About Style

Quotes about: Style

• The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

  Jonathan Swift

  Style, Literature, Definitions

• I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."

  Jonathan Swift

  Cousin, Book, Order

  Jonathan Swift (2015). “Gulliver's Travels”, p.4, Xist Publishing

• Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

  Jonathan Swift

  Perfection, Simplicity, Style

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.310

• The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

  Jonathan Swift

  Running, Style, Term

• The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

  Jonathan Swift

  Bible, Running, Writing

  Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works”, p.55

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