662 Quotes by Jonathan Swift

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

Many a truth is told in jest.

You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.