文档介绍：Quotes by Jonathan Swift
---When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Source: Thoughts on Various Subjects
---I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that 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.
Source: A Modest Proposal
---I heard the little bird say so.
Source: Letter to Stella
---They never would hear, But turn the deaf ear, As a matter they had no concern in.
Source: Dingley and Brent
---Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Source: Gulliver's Travels
---Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.
Source: Pastoral Dialogue
---A bad man es worse when he apes a saint.
Source: Pastoral Dialogue
---A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.
Source: Pastoral Dialogue
---Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Source: Miscellanies
---There is nothing in this world constant, but inconsistancy.
Source: A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind
Jonathan Swift
I. Brief Introduction to the Writer
1. Life Story
Jonathan Swift is a master of satire. He was born in 1667 in Dublin, Ireland, of an English family. The family had important connections but little wealth. His father died before he was born and his mother was poor. Swift was forced to accept aid from others. With the help of his uncle, he was educated at school and college. At school, and especially at college he disliked the curriculums and studied what appealed to him. After graduation, the only job he could find was from a distant relative, Sir William Temple, a retired diplomat, at whose place he met many importan