662 Quotes by Jonathan Swift

Beauty, like supreme dominion is best supported by opinion.

For life is a tragedy, wherein we sit as spectators awhile and act out our own part in it.

Hay is for horses.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

A penny for your thoughts.

Drive gently over the stones.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit