662 Quotes by Jonathan Swift

Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.

If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time

An excuse is a lie guarded.

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.

He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.