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
men attention inattention
I never knew any man cured of inattention.
age succeed imagine
I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.
men guilt unqualified
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
past carpe-diem locks
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.
men quality alive
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?
fashion velvet lexicon
Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.
hate world charity
I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
men disorder advantage
Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.
men company persons
Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
people bird fruit
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.