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
bold eat man
He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.
bold eat food man
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
balanced degree equal fits next pain pleasure spending year
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 revenues
favors half granted
A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.
conceited well-said wells
Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
healthcare
I row after health like a waterman...
onions should
Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.
elephants maps want
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns
shining fiction poet
Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.
hail mets wells
Hail fellow, well met.
satire offence
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
reeds danger secrecy
When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.
astrology long abuse
I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.
flattery manners ill
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.