Zitate von Jonathan Swift
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Die beste Methode, das Leben angenehm zu verbringen, ist, guten Kaffee zu trinken. Und wenn man keinen haben kann, so soll man versuchen, so heiter und gelassen zu sein, als hätte man guten Kaffee getrunken.
Informationen über Jonathan Swift
Schriftsteller, Satiriker, "Gullivers Reisen" (England, 1667 - 1745).
Jonathan Swift · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Jonathan Swift wäre heute 356 Jahre, 5 Monate, 4 Tage oder 130.182 Tage alt.
Geboren am 30.11.1667 in Dublin
Gestorben am 19.10.1745 in Dublin
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Weitere 265 Zitate von Jonathan Swift
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Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manner as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest.
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Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason; their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
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Once you kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
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Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
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Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry, 'I'm sorry-but we all must die!'
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Praise is the daughter of present power.
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Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Religion is too often talked of, but too little known.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
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Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
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Say, Britain, could you ever boast, - Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.
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She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
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So geographers, in Afric-maps, With savage-pictures fill their gaps; And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
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So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
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So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. Thus every poet, in his kind, Is bit by him that comes behind.
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Surely mortal man is a broomstick!
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Th' artillery of words.
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The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, (such) as the use of the compass, gunpowder and printing.
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.