Quotes by Jonathan Swift
Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
- Jonathan Swift
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
- Jonathan Swift
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
- Jonathan Swift
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
- Jonathan Swift
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
- Jonathan Swift
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- Jonathan Swift
Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.
- Jonathan Swift
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
- Jonathan Swift
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
― Jonathan Swift