662 Quotes by Jonathan Swift

Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.

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

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.