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
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.