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
yesterday acknowledge-you world
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
criticism opinion passages
That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
sarcastic sarcasm glasses
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
belief ifs
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
passion reason
God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.
lasts these-days live-every-day
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
humility pride vanity
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
two example flattery
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
birthday people soul
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
profound understanding literature
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
littles gullivers-travels philosopher
Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.
understanding together world
Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
success congratulations sadness
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
happiness success heaven
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.