662 Quotes by Jonathan Swift

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.