Jonathan SwiftThinkers

Ambition is performed in the same position with creeping.

An Argument is, as usually managed, the worst sort of conversation... as it generally in books the worst sort of reading.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

An Excuse is a lie guarded.

A Genius is a person that the dunces are all in confederacy against.

Gossip is how women bond. Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

Intimacy is rarely achieved between women but at the expense of a third person.

Ireland is an awful place. No man is thoroughly miserable unless he be condemned to live there.

A Lie is an excuse guarded.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.