What did Jonathan Swift mean by: Faith, that’s as well said as if I had said it myself. - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland Copy
+ Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Swift, Devotion, Heaven, Prayer, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Swift, Intimate, Women, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Swift, Despise, Pride, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters. Feraz Zeid, September 28, 2023December 26, 2023, Jonathan Swift, Defects, Fool, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. Feraz Zeid, August 2, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Swift, Fool, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ Praise is the daughter of present power. Feraz Zeid, July 25, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Swift, Daughter, Praise, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Swift, Science, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem. Feraz Zeid, July 22, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Swift, Flattery, Worst, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited. - William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India
I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. - George Eliot Author · England
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. - Alexander Hamilton Founding Father of the United States · USA
But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Aviator · France
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Writer · Austria
