Jonathan Swift Quotes on Society
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I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.
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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
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I said the thing which was not. (For they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood.)
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Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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(On leaving money to found a psychiatric hospital in Dublin) No nation needs it so much.