Jonathan Swift Quotes
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In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
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Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
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To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
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My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.
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Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he shewed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.
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Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
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T is as cheap sitting as standing.
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Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.