Jonathan Swift Quotes

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

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

topic:death

“When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without...”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

topic:power

“Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

topic:power passion

“But he may please to consider, that the caprices of womankind are not limited by any climate or nation, and that they are much more uniform, than can be easily imagined.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

topic:women

“I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our...”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

topic:knowledge reason opinion

“They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld; and the women more horrible than the men . . . The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

topic:beauty age

“My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their language;...”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

topic:reading books language

“Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

topic:greatness weakness

“They have a notion, that when people are met together, a short silence does much improve conversation: this I found to be true; for during those little intermissions of talk, new ideas would arise in their minds, which very much enlivened the...”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

topic:silence

“This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavour to do himself honour among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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