Jonathan Swift Quotes


Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.


Citations

Swift, Jonathan. A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners, Benj. Tooke, 1709, p. 43.

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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".