All Jonathan Swift Quotes
I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.
Jonathan Swift
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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
Jonathan Swift
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Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Jonathan Swift
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A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift
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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
Jonathan Swift
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Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
Jonathan Swift
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As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Jonathan Swift
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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.
Jonathan Swift
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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Jonathan Swift
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