There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.
~ Jonathan Swift

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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
~ Jonathan Swift

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
~ Jonathan Swift

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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
~ Jonathan Swift

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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
~ Jonathan Swift

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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.
~ Jonathan Swift

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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
~ Jonathan Swift

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one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.
~ Jonathan Swift

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There is nothing in this World constant but inconstancy, yet Plato thought that if virtue would appear to the world in her own native dress, all men would be enamoured with her.
~ Jonathan Swift

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