Imitation of Horace, book ii. Sat. 6.; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;
Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.”
On a Dull Writer, reported in John Hawkesworth, The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin (1754), p. 265. Alternately attributed to Alexander Pope by Bartlett's Quotations, 10th Edition (1919). Compare: "His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home", William Cowper, Conversation, line 303
Disputed
“She pays him in his own coin.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“As love without esteem is volatile and capricious; esteem without love is languid and cold.”
John Hawkesworth, The Adventurer, No. 36 (10 March, 1753)
Misattributed
“…one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.”
Journal to Stella (30 June, 1711)
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age…”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Jonathan Swift книга A Tale of a Tub
Preface
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
“I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
Jonathan Swift книга The Battle of the Books
The Battle of the Books, preface (1704)
“I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade."”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“She's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
“I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“There is none so blind as they that won't see.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
Jonathan Swift книга A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding (1754, published posthumously)
Jonathan Swift книга A Tale of a Tub
A Tale of a Tub (1704)