When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.
Jonathan SwiftThe chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.
Jonathan SwiftI love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
Jonathan SwiftWhen you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.
Jonathan Swift