“Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
Jonathan Swift: Frases em inglês
Jonathan Swift era Escritor anglo-irlandês conhecido pela sua obra "As Viagens de Gulliver". Frases em inglês.Jonathan Swift: 197 citações65 Curtidas
“T is happy for him that his father was before him.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Jonathan Swift livro As Viagens de Gulliver
Voyage to Laputa, Ch. 5
Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Jonathan Swift livro A Tale of a Tub
Preface
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
“Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Jonathan Swift livro Cadenus and Vanessa
Cadenus and Vanessa (1713)
Jonathan Swift livro A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
Conversation
“He made it a part of his religion never to say grace to his meat.”
Jonathan Swift livro A Tale of a Tub
Sect. 11
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“They say a carpenter's known by his chips.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“You must take the will for the deed.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“I shall be like that tree; I shall die from the top.”
Predicting that he would go senile, as quoted in The Highway of Letters and its Echos of Famous Footsteps (1893) by Thomas Archer, p. 380
“So weak thou art, that fools thy power despise;
And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.”
To Love, found in Miss Vanhomrigh's desk after her death, in Swift's handwriting
“Reason is a very light rider and easily shook off.”
As quoted in The World's Laconics : Or, The Best Thoughts Of The Best Authors (1827) by Johan TImbs, p. 25
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“If it had been a bear it would have bit you.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1