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Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist

1667–1745

36 quotes, most often on Clever Jabs, Laws and Comedy. Part of the Writers collection.

Violent zeal for truth hath an hundred to one odds to be either petulancy, ambition, or pride.
Thoughts on Religion
- Truth & Lies
I said the thing which was not;” for they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood.
Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, Chapter IIIIn context
- Truth & Lies
There was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.
Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, Chapter VIn context
They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man’s goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning
Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput, Chapter VIIn context
- Laws
- Truth & Lies

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