Jonathan Swift Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

82 Famous Quotes by Jonathan Swift
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“Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.”
Passion Quotes
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes
“It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.”
Sarcasm Quotes
“Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.”
Sensuality Quotes
“The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.”
Slander Quotes
“Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.”
Vision Quotes
“The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.”
Want Quotes