662 Quotes by Jonathan Swift

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

We have an intuitive sense of our duty.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.