Jonathan Swift World Quotations

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.