Quotes from Jonathan Swift

door. It was likewise ordered, that three hundred tailors should make me a suit of clothes, after the fashion of the country; that six of his majesty's greatest scholars should be employed to instruct me in their language; and lastly, that the emperor's horses, and those of the nobility and troops of guards, should be frequently exercised in my sight, to accustom themselves to me.

Embora Mr. Gulliver tenha nascido em Nottinghamshire, onde seu pai viveu, eu o ouvi dizer que sua família veio de Oxfordshire; confirmando o fato, observei no cemitério da igrega em Bandury, neste condado, diversas tumbas e monumentos dos Gullivers.

Una vez que me fueron leídos, se me propuso que jurase su cumplimiento, primero a la usanza de mi propio país y luego según el procedimiento descrito por las leyes de allá, y que consistió en sostenerme en alto el pie derecho con la mano izquierda, al tiempo que me colocaba el dedo medio de la mano derecha en la coronilla y el pulgar en la punta de la oreja derecha.

it. He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life.

Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired.

truth, justice, temperance, and

After all, I am not so violently bent upon my own opinion, as to reject any offer, proposed by wise men, which shall be found equally innocent, cheap, easy, and effectual.

I was in the utmost astonishment, and roared so loud that they all ran back in a fright; and some of them, as I was afterwards told, were hurt with the falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground. However, they soon returned

Such constant irreconcilable enemies to science are the common people.

Two days after this adventure, the emperor, having ordered that part of his army which quarters in and about his metropolis, to be in readiness, took a fancy of diverting himself in a very singular manner. He desired I would stand like a Colossus, with my legs as far asunder as I conveniently could.

My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern

body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that number of Lilliputians. By which the reader may conceive an idea of the ingenuity of that people, as well as the prudent and exact economy of so great a prince.,

we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other.

nunca acreditávamos ter muito dinheiro e que, quanto mais tínhamos, mais queríamos ter;

Their education is of little consequence to the public; but the old and diseased among them are supported by hospitals: for begging is a trade unknown in this Empire

que vinieron a confirmarme más en mi vieja convicción de que no existe nada demasiado irracional y disparatado que no haya sido sostenido como verdad alguna vez por los filósofos.

May you live every day of your life

It is observed, that the red haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity.

nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventures, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons, And Buccaneers and buried Gold, And all the old romance, retold Exactly in the ancient way, Can please, as me they pleased of old, The wiser youngsters of to-day:

pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.

Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality, to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence.

Hükümdarl??a verilen en büyük hizmetler, tutkular?n? kar??lamakta gösterilen eksiklikle tart?ya vurulunca, ne de çabuk deÄŸerden düÅŸüyorlar.

Bütün bana anlatt?klar?n?zdan, sorular?ma verdiÄŸiniz yan?tlardan, ülkeniz halk?ndan birçoÄŸunun, yeryüzünün en aptal ve en kötü yarat?klar? olduÄŸu sonucunu ç?kar?yorum.