Jonathan Swift Quotes

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

Quotes to Explore
-
I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.
-
Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
-
I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.
-
Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
-
I believe in the free enterprise system.
-
There is no diplomacy like candor.
-
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
-
I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
-
Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
-
Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
-
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
-
I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
-
We always think that we're going to be young forever, and now when I wake up, I need to stretch, and I need to have my glass of water and be cognizant of what I'm doing with my body.
-
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
-
You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
-
In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.
-
I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.
-
Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
-
I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.
-
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
-
There's a lot of directing within the stunt coordinator's job.
-
The joy with which we denigrate each others' efforts, I hate that.
-
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.