Quotes by Jonathan Swift

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.

If a man should register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

Books, the children of the brain.

Vision: the art of seeing the invisible.

I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.