662 Quotes by Jonathan Swift

Usually speaking, the worst bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

Praise is the daughter of present power.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.