662 Quotes by Jonathan Swift

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

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

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 knowledge we cannot do either.