Jonathan Swift Quotes on Morality
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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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.
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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.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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.
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She has more goodness in her little finger, than he has in his whole body.