Джонатан Свифт: Цитаты на английском языке

Джонатан Свифт было англо-ирландский писатель-сатирик, публицист, философ, поэт и общественный деятель. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.”

Jonathan Swift

Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1

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

Jonathan Swift

Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)

“Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.”

Jonathan Swift

Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1

“I mean you lie—under a mistake.”

Jonathan Swift

Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1

“That's as well said, as if I had said it myself.”

Jonathan Swift

Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2

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

Jonathan Swift

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

“Bread is the staff of life.”

Jonathan Swift книга A Tale of a Tub

Preface
A Tale of a Tub (1704)

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

Jonathan Swift

Journal to Stella (November 8, 1710)

“She looks as if butter wou'dn't melt in her mouth.”

Jonathan Swift

Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1

“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.”

Jonathan Swift книга Путешествия Гулливера

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

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

Jonathan Swift книга Путешествия Гулливера

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

“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.”

Jonathan Swift книга Путешествия Гулливера

Voyage to Brobdingnag, Ch. 7 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels/Part_II/Chapter_VII <br class="br">Gulliver&#x27;s Travels (1726)