Jonathan Swift Quotes


If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.


Citations

Swift, Jonathan. Letter to Alexander Pope, 29 Sept. 1725. The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D., edited by F. Elrington Ball, vol. 3, G. Bell and Sons, 1912, p. 277.

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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".