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
best company conversation left reasonably rules unsaid wish
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid
love sweet pain
Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet; Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.
wise men rogues
A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
wise lying men
Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
wise people solitude
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
best company conversation left rules wish
One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
giving able guests
Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.
love religious hate
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
men giving people
There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.
men may fool
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.