Jonathan Swift Berühmte Zitate
Gedanken über verschiedene Gegenstände / Thoughts on Various Subjects
Original engl.: "Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time."
„Wir haben Religion genug, um einander zu hassen, aber nicht genug, um einander zu lieben.“
Gedanken über verschiedene Gegenstände / Thoughts on Various Subjects
Original engl.: "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."
Gedanken über verschiedene Gegenstände / Thoughts on Various Subjects
Original engl.: "[…] the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice."
Jonathan Swift Zitate und Sprüche
„Die besten Ärzte der Welt sind Dr. Diät, Dr. Ruhe und Dr. Fröhlich.“
Polite Conversation
Original engl.: "The best doctors in the world are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet and Dr. Merryman."
Gedanken über verschiedene Gegenstände / Thoughts on Various Subjects
Original engl.: "The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."
A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1707)
Original engl.: "Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
Tagebuch für Stella
(Original englisch: "I love good creditable acquaintance: I love to be the worst of the company: [I am not of those that say, 'For want of company, welcome trumpery]." - The Journal to Stella. Letters 23. Chelsea, May 12, 1711. No. 17 p. 119
„Jeder möchte lange leben, aber keiner will alt werden.“
Gedanken über verschiedene Gegenstände / Thoughts on Various Subjects
Original engl.: "Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old." - p. 188 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AThe_Battle_of_the_Books%2C_and_Other_Short_Pieces.djvu/193
Ein Tonnenmärchen, Dritte Abteilung. Eine Abschweifung, hinsichtlich der Kritiker
Original engl.: "Lastly, a true critic in the perusal of a book is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones." - A Tale of a Tub. 10th edition London 1751. Sec. III: A Disgession concerning Critics. p. 63 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=q1FOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA63
Gullivers Reisen. Teil 2: Reise nach Brobdingnag, Kapitel 7, gutenberg.spiegel.de http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/gullivers-reisen-7565/17
And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." - Gulliver's Travels. Part II: Voyage to Brobdingnag. Chapter VII en.wikisource https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels/Part_II/Chapter_VII
Jonathan Swift: Zitate auf Englisch
Imitation of Horace, book ii. Sat. 6.; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;
Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.”
On a Dull Writer, reported in John Hawkesworth, The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin (1754), p. 265. Alternately attributed to Alexander Pope by Bartlett's Quotations, 10th Edition (1919). Compare: "His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home", William Cowper, Conversation, line 303
Disputed
“As love without esteem is volatile and capricious; esteem without love is languid and cold.”
John Hawkesworth, The Adventurer, No. 36 (10 March, 1753)
Misattributed
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age…”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade."”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation (1709)
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“She's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
“I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding (1754, published posthumously)
“The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
Conversation
“He made it a part of his religion never to say grace to his meat.”
Sect. 11
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
