Jonathan Swift Quotes - Page 14

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• The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Vanity, Helping

  Jonathan Swift (1746). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing, I. His Miscellanies in prose. II. His poetical writings. III. The travels of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver. IV. Papers relating to Ireland, and The Drapier's letters. V. The conduct of the allies, and The examiners. VI. The publick spirit of the Whiggs, &c. with Polite conversation. VII. Letters to and from Dr. Swift. VIII. Directions to servants, sermons, poems, &c”, p.316

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• Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

  Jonathan Swift

  Savages, Arbitrary, Anarchy

  Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works”, p.316

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• When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

  Jonathan Swift

  Satire, Dunces

  Jonathan Swift, John Mitford (1854). “The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift: With a Life”, p.168

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• Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

  Jonathan Swift

  Vanity, Temptation, Natural

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• Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Law, Judging

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• Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

  Jonathan Swift

  Rose, Secrecy, Ends

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (1812). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...”, p.237

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• I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

  Jonathan Swift

  Moon, World, Passages

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.618

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• "Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

  Jonathan Swift

  Lying, Law, Ability

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• When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Genius, World

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• The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Kings, Age, Example

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• O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

  Jonathan Swift

  Art, Children, Writing

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author”, p.354

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• A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

  Jonathan Swift

  Lying, Hype, Desire

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• In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.

  Jonathan Swift

  Air, Age, May

  Jonathan Swift (2004). “A Modest Proposal and Other Prose”, p.61, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• And, is not Virtue in Mankind
  The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?

  Jonathan Swift

  Mind, Virtue, Mankind

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.446

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• 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".

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• Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

  Jonathan Swift

  Understanding, Together, World

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift (1768). “The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin”, p.426

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• The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

  Jonathan Swift

  Language, Corruption, Introducing

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1754). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates. With Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes, Historical and Explanatory”, p.325

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• It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

  Jonathan Swift

  Taken, Age, Next

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• This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wine, Drunk, Should

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.75

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• Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

  Jonathan Swift

  Science, Oxen, Feet

  Jonathan Swift (1765). “The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: Accurately Revised ... Adorned with Copper-plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.288

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• Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

  Jonathan Swift

  Father, Good Woman, Cows

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• I row after health like a waterman.

  Jonathan Swift

  Healthcare

  Jonathan Swift, Deane Swift, Thomas Birch, Thomas Wilkes, Thomas Hawkesworth (1763). “The Works of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift: More of his literary correspondence ... An account of the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift”, p.146

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• For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

  Jonathan Swift

  Block, Men, Trying

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• Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

  Jonathan Swift

  Thinking, Owl, Woods

  Jonathan Swift (1761). “The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes”, p.272

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• With a whirl of thought oppressed
  I sink from reverie to rest.
  An horrid vision seized my head,
  I saw the graves give up their dead.

  Jonathan Swift

  Giving Up, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Jonathan Swift, Alexander Norman Jeffares (1992). “The selected poems”

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