Quotes
Quotes - Swift
A penny for your thoughts.
Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
'T is as cheap sitting as standing.
I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
She's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
She looks as if butter wou'dn't melt in her mouth.
If it had been a bear it would have bit you.
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
I mean you lie--under a mistake.
Lord M. What religion is he of?
Lord Sp. Why, he is an Anythingarian.
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
That is as well said as if I had said it myself.
You must take the will for the deed.
Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.
Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
They say a carpenter's known by his chips.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
I 'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade."
May you live all the days of your life.
I have fed like a farmer: I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
I always like to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the Church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.
I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
