Jonathan Swift Quotes

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

Jonathan Swift

• Satire
• Offence
• Resented

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Opposite
  • All Things
  • Attunement

• You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Women
  • Smart
  • Dumb

• If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.

  

  Betty Eadie
  • Silence
  • Negative
  • Understood

• I really love school, but I'd love to continue acting jobs if I can.

  

  Georgie Henley
  • School
  • Acting
  • Continue

• It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.

  

  Mike Gordon
  • Song
  • Play

• As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.

  

  Nicholas Ray
  • Humans
  • Actresses

• I like to write a lot of satire.

  

  Earl King
  • Like
  • Write
  • Satire

• Satire doesn't effect change.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Change
  • Effect
  • Satire

• Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Hollywood
  • Horrible
  • Satire

• Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Religious
  • Tool
  • Satire

• A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Deals
  • Wit

• The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Speak
  • Virtue
  • Ill

• Satire is an art best practiced behind the back of the intended target. I think inviting politicians on a satirical show becomes a very big trap. Because one of two things happen: Either you have to kind of unsharpen your fangs because you can't be quite as cruel to people to their face as you are behind their backs... Or you don't defang, and those guests get the word and they stop coming.

  

  Harry Shearer
  • Art
  • Target
  • Satire

• People in my confirmation process, on the right and the left, really loved that idea of having someone who's going to be in meetings arguing on behalf of the dignity of people who sometimes aren't represented in meetings. But by the same token, they have somewhat unrealistic expectations that I can kind of make my own policy.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Same
  • Meetings

• I'm a fan. I would have been a fan of Candyman even if I hadn't been in that movie. I'm a huge fan of Star Trek, which is why I was in Star Trek: Voyager - because I begged them to be a part of that lore.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Fans
  • Stars
  • Huge

• Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.

  

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson
  • Speak
  • Television
  • Messages

• Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Satire
  • Offence
  • Resented