Jonathan Swift Quotes

Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

You must take the will for the deed.

That's as well said, as if I had said it myself.

Lord M. What religion is he of?
Lord Sp. Why, he is an Anythingarian.

I mean you lie—under a mistake.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.

If it had been a bear it would have bit you.

She looks as if butter wou'dn't melt in her mouth.

She's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

'Tis as cheap sitting as standing.

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?