Jonathan Swift

Biography

British singer-songwriter, released an album called "Introvert" in 1971 (CBS).

Originally from the Bradford area, Swift moved to Belgium, settling in the Antwerp area.

(b.

c1943 - d.

cNov-2010).

Country
Kingdom of Ireland
Gender
Male
Education
Hertford College· Oxford·Trinity College Dublin
Place of birth
Dublin
Birth date
30 November 1667
Member of
Tories
Nationality
Kingdom of Ireland

  • Was a clergyman. Took his orders in 1694 and was appointed vicar of Kilroot, near Belfast.
  • Anglo-Irish author of the celebrated novel "Gullivers Travels" (1726). He has been called the foremost prose satirist in the English language.
  • Political reporter.

  • Books, the children of the brain.
  • Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
  • It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so,universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an,evil to mankind.
  • The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor,Merryman.
  • It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house,for the voice of the kingdom.
  • Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very,useful and profound is couched underneath.
  • The most positive men are the most credulous.
  • The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy,impute all their success to prudence or merit.
  • Anyone who loves either the law or sausages should not see either being,made.
  • [on flattery] Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as,flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you,flatter only one or two, you affront all the rest.

Movies

TV

Books

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