Jonathan Swift · Skopia

Quotes

20

Satire · Travel writing

Men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent as when they are at stool.

Gulliver's Travels · 1726

★ 5.5

Essay · Satire

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting · 1745

★ 5.5

Satire · Travel writing

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.

Gulliver's Travels · 1726

★ 5.4

Satire · Travel writing

I said there was a society of men among us bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose that white is black and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves.

Gulliver's Travels · 1726

★ 4.5

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Books

2

Gulliver's Travels

1726★ 8.2

A Modest Proposal

1729★ 7.0