Jonathan Swift Literature Quotations

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Observation is an old man's memory.