Gulliver's Travels Quotes

“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

“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.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

topic:care

“He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

topic:sun

“It is not easy to express the joy I was in, upon the unexpected hope of once more seeing my beloved country, and the dear pledges I left in it.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

topic:travel home

“He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

topic:respect

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