He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
More quotations from Jonathan Swift I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Tags: kiss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Tags: youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Tags: ambition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Tags: kiss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Tags: youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Tags: ambition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email