Jonathan Swift Sat Quotations

And surely 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…

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

Polite Conversation 'Tis happy for him, that his father was before him.

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.

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