Famous Jonathan Swift Quotes

  • I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. – Jonathan Swift

    I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.– Jonathan Swift

  • As learnèd commentators viewIn Homer more than Homer knew. – Jonathan Swift

    As learn̬d commentators viewIn Homer more than Homer knew.РJonathan Swift

  • When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore. – Jonathan Swift

    When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.– Jonathan Swift

  • Every dog must have his day. – Jonathan Swift

    Every dog must have his day.– Jonathan Swift

  • Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. – Jonathan Swift

    Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.– Jonathan Swift

  • He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. – Jonathan Swift

    He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.– Jonathan Swift

  • Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical. – Jonathan Swift

    Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.– Jonathan Swift

  • If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time. – Jonathan Swift

    If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.– Jonathan Swift

  • It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. – Jonathan Swift

    It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.– Jonathan Swift

  • Books, the children of the brain. – Jonathan Swift

    Books, the children of the brain.– Jonathan Swift