Frases célebres de Jonathan Swift
Frases de mundo de Jonathan Swift
Frases de leyes de Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift libro Los viajes de Gulliver
Los viajes de Gulliver
Jonathan Swift libro Los viajes de Gulliver
Los viajes de Gulliver
Jonathan Swift Frases y Citas
Jonathan Swift libro Cuento de una barrica
A Tale of a Tub
Variante: La sabiduría es como una gallina, que debemos sabe, cuyo cacareo debemos saber valorar y considerar, pues es acompañado por un huevo
Jonathan Swift libro Los viajes de Gulliver
Los viajes de Gulliver
“La mayoría de las personas son como alfileres: sus cabezas no son lo más importante.”
Sin fuentes
Variante: La mayoría de las personas son como alfileres: sus cabezas no son lo más importante
“¡Ojalá vivas todos los días de tu vida!”
Sin fuentes
Variante: ¡Ojalá vivas todos los días de tu vida!
Sin fuentes
Fuente: Citado en Antología del humor negro de André Breton.
Sin fuentes
Fuente: Citado en Antología del humor negro de André Breton.
Sin fuentes
Sin fuentes
Fuente: Citado en Antología del humor negro de André Breton.
“Si un hombre me mantiene a distancia, me consuela que también él se mantiene.”
Sin fuentes
Fuente: Citado en Antología del humor negro de André Breton.
Jonathan Swift libro Los viajes de Gulliver
Los viajes de Gulliver
Jonathan Swift libro Los viajes de Gulliver
Los viajes de Gulliver
Jonathan Swift libro Los viajes de Gulliver
Los viajes de Gulliver
Jonathan Swift libro Los viajes de Gulliver
Los viajes de Gulliver
Jonathan Swift libro Los viajes de Gulliver
Los viajes de Gulliver
Jonathan Swift libro Los viajes de Gulliver
Los viajes de Gulliver
Jonathan Swift: Frases en inglés
Imitation of Horace, book ii. Sat. 6.; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;
Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.”
On a Dull Writer, reported in John Hawkesworth, The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin (1754), p. 265. Alternately attributed to Alexander Pope by Bartlett's Quotations, 10th Edition (1919). Compare: "His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home", William Cowper, Conversation, line 303
Disputed
“She pays him in his own coin.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“As love without esteem is volatile and capricious; esteem without love is languid and cold.”
John Hawkesworth, The Adventurer, No. 36 (10 March, 1753)
Misattributed
“…one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.”
Journal to Stella (30 June, 1711)
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age…”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Jonathan Swift libro Cuento de una barrica
Preface
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
“I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
Jonathan Swift libro The Battle of the Books
The Battle of the Books, preface (1704)
“I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade."”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“She's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
“I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“There is none so blind as they that won't see.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
Jonathan Swift libro A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding (1754, published posthumously)
Jonathan Swift libro Cuento de una barrica
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
“Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“T is happy for him that his father was before him.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Jonathan Swift libro Los viajes de Gulliver
Voyage to Laputa, Ch. 5
Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Jonathan Swift libro Cuento de una barrica
Preface
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
“Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Jonathan Swift libro Cadenus and Vanessa
Cadenus and Vanessa (1713)
Jonathan Swift libro A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
Conversation
“He made it a part of his religion never to say grace to his meat.”
Jonathan Swift libro Cuento de una barrica
Sect. 11
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
