6 Jonathan Swift Quotes on Morality

Jonathan Swift quotes on morality

18. If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

28. Yet malice never was his aim; He lashed the vice but spared the name. No individual could resent, Where thousands equally were meant. His satire points at no defect But what all mortals may correct; For he abhorred that senseless tribe Who call it humor when they gibe.

49. Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.

55. I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

63. A soldier is a Yahoo (man) hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can.

75. She has more goodness in her little finger, than he has in his whole body.