Jonathan Swift Quotes
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. Observation is an old man's memory. Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding. One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced. Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style. Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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