216 ordspråk av Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift föddes den 30 november 1667 och dog den 19 oktober 1745 - of prose.
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 Promises and Pye-Crusts - are made to be broken

 Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.

 Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart

 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.

 Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

 She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth

 She wears her clothes as if they are thrown on with a pitchfork

 So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns

 So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

 So, naturalists observe, a flea - Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum

 Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion

 Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky

 Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.

 Taverns are places where madness is sold by the bottle

 That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy


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