Jonathan Swift Quotes - Page 12

• I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.

  Jonathan Swift

  Vida, Jardín, Años

  'Imitation of Horace' (1714).

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• En oratoria el mayor arte es ocultar el arte.

  Jonathan Swift

  Arte, Oratoria, Hablar en público

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1801). "The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin", p.8

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• Hay ciertos privilegios comunes de un escritor, en cuyo beneficio, espero, no habrá razón para dudar; en particular, que cuando no se me entienda, se concluirá que algo muy útil y profundo se esconde debajo; y además, que cualquier palabra o frase que se imprima en un carácter diferente, se juzgará que contiene algo extraordinario o ingenio de sublime.

  Jonathan Swift

  Carácter, Profundo, Sublime

  Jonathan Swift (2013). "Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)", p.26, Delphi Classics.

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• An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

  Jonathan Swift

  Forever, Might, Tongue

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• The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

  Jonathan Swift

  Success, Congratulations, Sadness

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays”, p.436

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• Las palabras adecuadas en los lugares adecuados son la verdadera definición del estilo.

  Jonathan Swift

  Style, Literature, Definitions

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• We have an intuitive sense of our duty.

  Jonathan Swift

  Duty, Intuitive

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• Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

  Jonathan Swift

  Divertido, Amistad, Perro

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.449

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• A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will makea reasonable Dish; and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.

  Jonathan Swift

  Children, Winter, Two

  1729 A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from being a Burden to their Parents or Country.

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• El principal objetivo de un viajero debe ser hacer a los hombres más sabios y mejores, y mejorar sus mentes con el ejemplo, tanto bueno como malo, de lo que dan sobre lugares extranjeros.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Mind, Example

  Jonathan Swift (2005). “Gulliver's Travels - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.253, Prestwick House Inc

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• When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Hands, Abuse

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.213

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• Un ateo tiene un punto más que el diablo.

  Jonathan Swift

  Ateo, Infidelidad, Diablo

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• When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

  Jonathan Swift

  Real, Genius, World

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• Nada es un ejemplo tan grande de malos modales como la adulación.

  Jonathan Swift

  Adulación, Modales, Ill

  Jonathan Swift (1861). "Las obras de Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions", p.625

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• There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

  Jonathan Swift

  Vanity, Skills, Vices

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”

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• It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Talent, Figures

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Epistolary correspondence. Letters from September 1725 to May 1732”, p.373

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• Seré como ese árbol, moriré en la cima.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspiración, Confianza, Árbol

  En Sir Walter Scott "Vida de Swift

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• I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.

  Jonathan Swift

  Taught Us, Opinion, Remember

  Jonathan Swift (2005). “Gulliver's Travels - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.233, Prestwick House Inc

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• I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

  Jonathan Swift

  Bread, Quarrels, Bread And Butter

  1738 Polite Conversation, dialogue 1.

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• Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

  Jonathan Swift

  Satire, Offence

  'A Tale of a Tub' (1704) 'The Author's Preface'

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• Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hands, Whales, Amusement

  Jonathan Swift, William Wotton (1811). “A tale of a tub,: written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, An account of a battle between the ancient and modern books in St. James's Library”, p.43

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• Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.

  Jonathan Swift

  Writing, Light, Rising

  'On Poetry' (1733) l. 85

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• Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

  Jonathan Swift

  Apollo, Disease, Trade

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.615

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• If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

  Jonathan Swift

  Distance, Men, Comfort

  Jonathan Swift (2013). "Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)", p.899, Delphi Classics.

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• Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.

  Jonathan Swift

  Taken, Aeneas, Giving

  Jonathan Swift (2010). “The Battle of the Books: And Other Works, Including 'A Modest Proposal'”, p.187, The Floating Press

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