Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.
Jonathan SwiftThe ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
Jonathan SwiftPolite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.
Jonathan SwiftBut you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
Jonathan SwiftYour notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.
Jonathan Swift