Quotes from Jonathan Swift

I grant this Food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for landlords; who, as they have already devoured most of the Parents, seem to have the best Title to the Children.

And I have often wished, that a Law were enacted to hang up half a Dozen Bankers every year;

Por donde resulta indudable que la Naturaleza ha limitado por completo la producción de plantas y animales de volumen tan extraordinario a este continente, por razones cuya determinación dejo a los filósofos.

Those who are more thrifty (as I must confess the times require) may flay the carcass; the skin of which, artificially dressed, will make admirable gloves for ladies, and summer boots for fine gentlemen.

is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

nas relações vulgares da vida, parecem estúpidos, mazombos, enfadonhos, malcriados.

that his majesty gave many marks of his great lenity, often

I cannot imagine why we should be at expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

Un hombre sabe tocar, otro puede hacer de un pueblo una gran ciudad, y el que no puede hacer ni una cosa ni otra merece que le echen del mundo a patadas; evitar este castigo a sido sin duda lo que ha dado lugar al nacimiento del reino de los críticos.

Anlamad???n?z bir insan? delidir diye nitelemek o kadar kolayd?r ki!

when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.

the quarrel is not against any particular points of hard digestion in the Christian system, but against religion in general; which, by laying restraints on human nature, is supposed the great enemy to the freedom of thought and action. Upon

The Song that Toomai's Mother sang to the Baby

that the mistakes committed by ignorance in a virtuous disposition, would never be of such fatal consequence to the public weal, as the practices of a man, whose inclinations led him to be corrupt, and had great abilities to manage, to multiply, and defend his corruptions.

And here, though it makes an odd sound, yet it is necessary to say, that whoever professes himself a member of the Church of England, ought to believe a God and his providence, together with revealed religion, and the divinity of Christ. For

I knew their numbers increased;

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Books, the children of the brain.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.