Jonathan Swift Quotes


I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.


Citations

Swift, Jonathan. "A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation." The Works of Jonathan Swift, vol. 9, edited by Sir Walter Scott, Archibald Constable and Co., 1824, p. 453.

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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".