Quotes by Swift, Jonathan

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. >>

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in >>

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires >>

Quotations about Virtue

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necess >>

Virtue is too often merely local. >>

Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be >>

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Swift, Jonathan