Guliver's Travels Quotes

“as for himself, being not of an enterprising spirit, he was content to go on in the old forms, to live in the
houses his ancestors had built, and act as they did, in every part of life, without innovation: that
some few other persons of quality and gentry had done the same, but were looked on with an
eye of contempt and ill-will, as enemies to art, ignorant, and ill common-wealth's men, preferring
their own ease and sloth before the general improvement of their country.”
― Jonathan Swift, Guiliver's Travels

“For, a Man may be allowed to keep Poisons in his Closet, but not to vend them about as Cordials.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“he was at a loss how it should come to pass, that the law, which was intended for every man’s preservation, should be any man’s ruin”
― Jonathan Swift, Guiliver's Travels

“There was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gilliver's Travels