Jonathan Swift Quotes

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

Jonathan Swift

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745

Topics

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I'm one of those workaholics, the kind of guy who may drop with a cardiac arrest around 55.

Joe Penny

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To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

Melvin Maddocks

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I want to build friendships. I want to come across as being a good illustration of what Jesus is like.

Robert H. Schuller

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In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't draw too much attention; we're low key. I'm good with faces and sometimes bad with names, but I'll walk up to somebody if I know who they are... show them some love.

Matt Kemp

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You work hard, and you'll rise. But, if you've got any foolish notions, just knock them on the head and forget them.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.

Simon Mainwaring

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I have a lot of respect for people who write a whole book because I've heard it will kill you.

Mary H.K. Choi

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There I am, chain-smoking and watching YouTube videos in my bedroom at 6 A.M. when a spoken-word video comes on the screen. I knew I had to do it: that it was another part of me that needed to be explored.

Mary Lambert

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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Michelangelo

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Superman was my first comic back in the '50s; that was me under the bedspread with the flashlight reading comic books.

Jok Church

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I'm compulsive.

Doris Lessing

Compulsive

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

Donald Glover

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