Quotes about Jonathan swift

Explore a curated collection of 7 quotes about Jonathan swift at QuotesRead.com. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words on Jonathan swift from famous authors and thinkers around the world.

He asked me, "what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another?" I answered "they were — Jonathan Swift
Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the author’s sentimental pity for the weak and helple — Margaret Irwin, Bloodstock and Other Stories
There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof Ihope there will be no reason to doubt; particularl — Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself. — W.B. Yeats, Selected Poems and Four Plays
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile — esteem without love is languid and cold.
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense — it is the life of the spider.
When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign — that the dunces are all in confederacy against