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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Pensées
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.
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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
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.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh (August 12, 1720)
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Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“The sight of you is good for sore eyes.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
Jonathan Swift livre A Tale of a Tub
Dedication
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
“There's two words to that bargain.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Meditation on a Broomstick (1703–1710)
“I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
Introduction.
Polite Conversation (1738)
“There was all the world and his wife.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.”
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.”
Journal to Stella (February 1, 1711)
“Lord M. What religion is he of?
Lord Sp. Why, he is an Anythingarian.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
“She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
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)
“I know nothing of music; I would not give a farthing for all the music in the universe.”
Observations on Lord Orrery's Remarks on Life of Swift, Delany, (1754), p. 192.
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