Jonathan Swift Quotes

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

Jonathan Swift

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• A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Money
  • Love

• My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Hearing
  • Suffered
  • Ear

• I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Best
  • Artist
  • End

• I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Training

• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Way
  • Interesting

• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Fiction

• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Taken

• Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Man
  • Being
  • Silly

• Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Beginning
  • Painting
  • End

• We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Family
  • You
  • Community

• I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Different
  • Family
  • American

• It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Characters

• I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Opportunity
  • Things
  • Feel

• It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• To create a work of art is to create the world.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• It must be horrible having people scared to talk to you. But I think it's kinda cool that I don't really know anyone in that way.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Think
  • Cool

• I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.

  

  Zendaya
  • Different
  • Rock
  • Enough

• Watching Madonna puffing on a cigar on David Letterman's show, I thought, 'Gosh, she's feeling so India! All she needs is long, black hair and a trip to the Caribbean to burn her skin up.'

  

  La India
  • Up
  • Long
  • She

• One must always keep one's government under control.

  

  Joe Wilson
  • Control

• Yoga is both the movement toward and the arrival at a point.

  

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
  • Yoga
  • Movement
  • Arrivals

• I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Great
  • Player
  • Speak

• You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Responsibility

• It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Great
  • Flattery
  • Ill-Manners