Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. – Jonathan Swift
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. – Jonathan Swift
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. – Jonathan Swift
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. – Jonathan Swift