662 Quotes by Jonathan Swift

Polite Conversation 'Tis happy for him, that his father was before him.

I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."

Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.