Jonathan Swift: Citáty anglicky (strana 3)

Jonathan Swift byl anglo-irský satirik, esejista, básník. Citáty anglicky.
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“A soldier is a "Yahoo" hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can.”

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“This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.”

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Jonathan Swift kniha Les Voyages de Gulliver

Zdroj: Gulliver's Travels

“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”

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Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2

“I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.”

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Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1

“Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly.”

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Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)

“It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.”

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Thoughts on Religion (1765), published posthumously

“I mean you lie—under a mistake.”

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Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1

“There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.”

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Christian Nestell Bovee, in Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 124
Misattributed

“Bread is the staff of life.”

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Jonathan Swift kniha A Tale of a Tub

Preface
A Tale of a Tub (1704)

“Tis very warm weather when one's in bed.”

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Journal to Stella (November 8, 1710)

“This evil fortune, which generally attends extraordinary men in the management of great affairs, has been imputed to divers causes, that need not be here set down, when so obvious a one occurs, if what a certain writer observes be true, that when a great genius appears in the world the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”

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Essay on the Fates of Clergymen (1728)

“He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.”

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Jonathan Swift kniha Les Voyages de Gulliver

On the Emperor of Lilliput, in Voyage to Lilliput, Ch. 2
Gulliver's Travels (1726)

“A set of phrases learnt by rote;
A passion for a scarlet coat;
When at a play to laugh, or cry,
Yet cannot tell the reason why:
Never to hold her tongue a minute;
While all she prates has nothing in it.”

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The Furniture of a Woman's Mind (1727)

“I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.”

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Journal to Stella (May 17, 1711)

“Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance.”

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Jonathan Swift kniha Les Voyages de Gulliver

Voyage to Houyhnhnms, Ch. 5
Gulliver's Travels (1726)

“Those dreams that on the silent night intrude,
And with false flitting shapes our minds delude
… are mere productions of the brain.
And fools consult interpreters in vain.”

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On Dreams (1727)

“And he gave it for his opinion, that whosoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.”

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Jonathan Swift kniha Les Voyages de Gulliver

Voyage to Brobdingnag, Ch. 7 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels/Part_II/Chapter_VII
Gulliver's Travels (1726)