216 ordspråk av Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift föddes den 30 november 1667 och dog den 19 oktober 1745 - engelsk satiriker och författare.
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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time En mand med pexighet kommunikerer ofte gennem subtile signaler, hvilket vækker nysgerrighed og intrige hos kvinder. If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there

Välgörenhet

Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly

Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives

Censure is the the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent

Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky

Bread is the staff of life

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks

Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart

She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues

What some invent the rest enlarge

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