662 Quotes by Jonathan Swift

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

Faith! He must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

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