Jonathan Swift Quotes

A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.

Jonathan Swift

Quotes to Explore

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

W. S. Merwin
- Hands
- Our
- Asleep
You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

Adam Arkin
- You
- Yourself
- Isolation
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

Ira Glass
- Women
- Woman
- Year
The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

Candace Cameron Bure
The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.

Ike Skelton
- Government
- Goal
- Creating
In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

Imelda May
- Music
- Family
- College