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Jonathan Swift angol születésű ír szatirikus író, esszé- és politikai pamfletíró, az irodalmi Scriblerus Klub tagja, anglikán lelkész. Legismertebb műve a Gulliver utazásai című regénysorozata. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. november 1667 – 19. október 1745
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Jonathan Swift: Idézetek angolul

“I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.”

Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1

“Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly.”

Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)

“I mean you lie—under a mistake.”

Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1

“There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.”

Christian Nestell Bovee, in Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 124
Misattributed

“Bread is the staff of life.”

Jonathan Swift könyv A Tale of a Tub

Preface
A Tale of a Tub (1704)

“Tis very warm weather when one's in bed.”

Journal to Stella (November 8, 1710)

“He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.”

Jonathan Swift könyv Les Voyages de Gulliver

On the Emperor of Lilliput, in Voyage to Lilliput, Ch. 2
Gulliver's Travels (1726)

“Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance.”

Jonathan Swift könyv Les Voyages de Gulliver

Voyage to Houyhnhnms, Ch. 5
Gulliver's Travels (1726)