Quotes by Swift, Jonathan

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. >>

Don't set your wit against a child. >>

Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived. >>

Quotations about Sarcasm

I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Sw >>

Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a >>

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- >>

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

Swift, Jonathan