Jonathan Swift Quotes

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

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• I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Friends

• The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • War
  • First

• Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • American
  • Beauty
  • Hollywood

• The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Business
  • Me
  • Goal

• In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Problem
  • Better
  • End

• One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Wrong
  • Injury

• When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Men
  • Women
  • Cooking

• My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Mother
  • Career
  • Fashion

• The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Long
  • Future
  • Transform

• If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

  

  Lactantius
  • Energy
  • Reflection
  • Intelligence

• I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Care
  • Win
  • Gold

• Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Think
  • You
  • Internet

• Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Religious
  • Spiritual
  • Human

• It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Time
  • Software
  • Fair

• That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Kind
  • Take

• I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.

  

  Usher
  • Music
  • Image
  • Daddy

• I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Brain
  • Cancer
  • Questions

• Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Work
  • Americans
  • Dollars

• I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• If we ever walk in streets paved with gold, we will have placed it there ourselves.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Gold
  • Streets

• The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Way

• She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Way
  • Feelings
  • Own

• Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Way
  • Esteem
  • Flattery