662 Quotes by Jonathan Swift

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r. While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.