Quotes by Jonathan Swift

About Jonathan Swift:

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Jonathan Swift

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

Jonathan Swift
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Jonathan Swift

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Jonathan Swift

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Jonathan Swift

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Jonathan Swift

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

Jonathan Swift

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Jonathan Swift

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Jonathan Swift

Author Bio

  • NameJonathan Swift
  • DescriptionAnglo-Irish satirist, essayist, poet, etc.
  • BornNovember 30, 1667
  • DiedOctober 19, 1745
  • CountryKingdom Of Ireland
  • ProfessionPoet; Novelist; Satirist; Philosopher; Human Rights Activist
  • WorksGulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal; A Tale Of A Tub