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“Quand un vrai génie apparaît en ce monde, on peut le reconnaître à ce signe, que les imbéciles sont tous ligués contre lui.”

Jonathan Swift

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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Variante: Quand un vrai génie apparaît en ce bas monde, on peut le reconnaitre à ce signe que les imbéciles sont tous ligués contre lui.
Source: Litt. cancres.
Source: Litt. conspiration.

“La vision est l'art de voir les choses invisibles.”

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“Je ne puis tirer qu'une conclusion : c'est que les gens de votre race forment, dans leur ensemble, la plus odieuse petite vermine à qui la Nature ait jamais permis de ramper à la surface de la terre.”

Jonathan Swift livre Les Voyages de Gulliver

Les Voyages de Gulliver, 1726

“Cette méthode stoïque de subvenir à nos besoins en supprimant nos désirs, équivaut à se couper les pieds pour n’avoir plus besoin de chaussure.”

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“Les caprices de l'espèce femelle ne sont pas limités à une seule partie du monde ni à un seul climat, [ils] sont bien plus généraux qu'on ne pourrait l'imaginer.”

Jonathan Swift livre Les Voyages de Gulliver

But he may please to consider, that the caprices of womankind are not limited to any climate or nation, and that they are much more uniform than can be easily imagined.
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Les Voyages de Gulliver, 1726

“Vous avez fort bien prouvé que l'ignorance, la paresse et le vice peuvent être quelquefois les seules qualités d'un homme d'État; que les lois sont expliquées, interprétées et appliquées le mieux possible par des gens que l'intérêt et la rapacité portent à les dénaturer, à les embrouiller et à les éluder.”

Jonathan Swift livre Les Voyages de Gulliver

You have clearly proved, that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied, by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them.
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Les Voyages de Gulliver, 1726

Jonathan Swift: Citations en anglais

“Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion.”

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Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)

“If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.”

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Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh (August 12, 1720)

“The two maxims of any great man at court are always to keep his countenance and never to keep his word.”

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Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)

“The sight of you is good for sore eyes.”

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Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1

“It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.”

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Jonathan Swift livre A Tale of a Tub

Dedication
A Tale of a Tub (1704)

“There's two words to that bargain.”

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Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3

“A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.”

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Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)

“When I behold this I sighed, and said within myself, "Surely mortal man is a broomstick!" Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head, the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, till the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk; he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs, all covered with powder, that never grew on his head; but now should this our broomstick pretend to enter the scene, proud of those birchen spoils it never bore, and all covered with dust, through the sweepings of the finest lady's chamber, we should be apt to ridicule and despise its vanity. Partial judges that we are of our own excellencies, and other men's defaults!”

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Meditation on a Broomstick (1703–1710)

“For conversation well endued;
She calls it witty to be rude;
And, placing raillery in railing,
Will tell aloud your greatest failing.”

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The Furniture of a Woman's Mind (1727)

“I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.”

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Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2

“A penny for your thoughts.”

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Introduction.
Polite Conversation (1738)

“There was all the world and his wife.”

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Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3

“Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners 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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Hints on Good Manners

“Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.”

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Jonathan Swift livre A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding

A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding

“We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.”

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Journal to Stella (February 1, 1711)

“Lord M. What religion is he of?
Lord Sp. Why, he is an Anythingarian.”

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Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1

“She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.”

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Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3

“Hail fellow, well met.”

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My Lady's Lamentation, The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II, edited by William Ernst Browning (1910); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)