Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swiftwas an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth30 November 1667
CountryIreland
heart intelligent should
An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart
air age peculiar
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.
law eleven possession
Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.
college dump cures
A college joke to cure the dumps.
way flattery worst
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
food bread eating
Bread is the staff of life.
eating lord feds
Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
order quality deceit
There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.
taken light age
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
young worst company
Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
food sea swim
They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.
dirty men masters
Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.
kissing two certainty
A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.
revenge men practice
There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.