662 Quotes by Jonathan Swift

I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.