“If I were a maker of perfumes, I would make one and call it 'Spring,' and it would smell like this cool, sweet, early-morning air.”
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“Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin
“By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)
“Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing, I. His Miscellanies in prose. II. His poetical writings. III. The travels of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver. IV. Papers relating to Ireland, and The Drapier's letters. V. The conduct of the allies, and The examiners. VI. The publick spirit of the Whiggs, &c. with Polite conversation. VII. Letters to and from Dr. Swift. VIII. Directions to servants, sermons, poems, &c
“Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions
“A college joke to cure the dumps.”
Source: The Works of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift: Poems on several occasions