Quotes by Jonathan Swift

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.