A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works Quotes

“a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. I”
― Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works

“After all I am not so violently bent upon my own Opinion, as to reject any Offer, proposed by wise Men, which shall be found equally Innocent, Cheap, Easy and Effectual.”
― Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works

“the quarrel is not against any particular points of hard digestion in the Christian system, but against religion in general; which, by laying restraints on human nature, is supposed the great enemy to the freedom of thought and action. Upon”
― Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works