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It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge. - Tale of a Tub: Author's Preface [Wit] Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. - The Battle of the Books [Satire] She sits tormenting every guest, Nor gives her tongue one moment's rest, In phrases batter'd, stale, and trite, Which modern ladies call polite. - The Journal of a Modern Lady [Talk] An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked, "Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could make no use of?" "Why," said the jackdaw, "my master has a whole chestfull, and makes no more use of them that I do." - Thoughts on Various Subjects [Jackdaws] Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. - Thoughts on Various Subjects [Fame : Greatness] I must complain the cards are ill-shuffled till I have a good hand. - Thoughts on Various Subjects [Cards] "That was excellently observed," say I when I read a passage in another where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, then I pronounce him to be mistaken. - Thoughts on Various Subjects [Opinion] The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. - Thoughts on Various Subjects [Matrimony] We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. - Thoughts on Various Subjects, collected by Pope and Swift, found in the "Spectator", no. 459 [Religion] Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old. - Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting [Age] When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting [Genius] In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise. - To Love [Love] Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true. - To Stella [Poets] The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies. - Tr. of Ovid--Examiner (no. 15) [Rumor] Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law. - Works (vol. XVII, p. 270) [Possession] Displaying page 12 of 12 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [12]
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