Jonathan Swift: Citáty anglicky

Jonathan Swift byl anglo-irský satirik, esejista, básník. Citáty anglicky.

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“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”

Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2

“I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”

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Jonathan Swift kniha Les Voyages de Gulliver

Voyage to Brobdingnag, Ch. 6
Zdroj: Gulliver's Travels (1726)

“Libertas et natale solum:
Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.”

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Verses Occasioned by Whitshed's Motto on his Coach (1724); the Latin indicates "liberty and my native land", and Whitshed was a chief justice enraged by The Drapier's Letters

“Every dog must have his day.”

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“Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.”

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Jonathan Swift kniha Les Voyages de Gulliver

Zdroj: Gulliver's Travels

“Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.”

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Letter to a Young Clergyman http://www.online-literature.com/swift/religion-church-vol-one/7/ (January 9, 1720)

“No wise man ever wished to be younger.”

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Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)

“You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday”

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Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727), Published in Swift's Miscellanies (1727)
Misattributed
Varianta: A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

“The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.”

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Jonathan Swift kniha Les Voyages de Gulliver

Zdroj: Gulliver's Travels

“For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.”

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

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The Tatler No. 63 (September 1709)

“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 reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”