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

- Jonathan Swift

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

- Jonathan Swift

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

- Jonathan Swift

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 reception i…

- Jonathan Swift

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had it…

- Jonathan Swift

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

- Jonathan Swift

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

- Jonathan Swift

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

- Jonathan Swift

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

- Jonathan Swift