Quotes by : Jonathan Swift

He asked me, "what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another?" I....

I know Sir John will go though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best.

As learnèd commentators viewIn Homer more than Homer knew.

He likewise directed, “that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered....

I heard the little bird say so.

He put this engine [a silver pocket watch] into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of....

And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to....

They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the....