About Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput. He is regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the...
More quotations from Jonathan Swift
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
More quotations tagged with “kiss”
Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.