Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.

...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation