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
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 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 Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote 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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “conversation” Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. —Dr. Thomas Fuller More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. —Dr. Thomas Fuller More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email