Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

—Jonathan Swift

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About Jonathan Swift

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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

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

—Jonathan Swift

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

—Jonathan Swift

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

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

—Jonathan Swift

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 quotations tagged with “promises”

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

—Theodore Parker

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

—Robert Frost

When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.

—Gordon Atkinson

You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.

He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend.

—George Shelley

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