Jonathan Swift Quotes


He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.


Citations

Swift, Jonathan. A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation. B. Motte and C. Bathurst, 1738, p. 116.

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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
  • Born: November 30, 1667
  • Died: October 19, 1745
  • Nationality: Irish
  • Profession: Writer

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".