"Gulliver's Travels" Quotes
"Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift is a satirical adventure novel that follows Lemuel Gulliver as he embarks on a series of fantastical voyages to lands with tiny people, giants, talking horses, and other peculiar societies, each reflecting aspects of human nature and government.
classics | 462 pages | Published in 1826
Quotes
I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Every man desires to live long; but no man wishes to be old.
Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.
I winked at my own littleness, as people do at their own faults.
Ingratitude is among them a capital crime; as they reckon all acts of justice to be imperative duties, of which they have no more notion of boasting than of any other necessary action of common life.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives; for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine.
That the life of a soldier was a mixture of all the worst parts of slavery and robbery.
He is the most ignorant person who answers every question he is asked.
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again.
As to ideas of beauty or deformity, they are wholly taken from custom.
