Quotes from Polite Conversation — Jonathan Swift
1667–1745 Ireland
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I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.
Polite Conversation (1738)
Polite Conversation (1738)
I have fed like a farmer: I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
Polite Conversation (1738)
The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
Polite Conversation (1738)
May you live all the days of your life.
Polite Conversation (1738)
Polite Conversation (1738)
That's as well said, as if I had said it myself.
Polite Conversation (1738)
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Polite Conversation (1738)
You must take the will for the deed.
Polite Conversation (1738)
'Tis as cheap sitting as standing.
Polite Conversation (1738)
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Polite Conversation (1738)
Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
Polite Conversation (1738)
There was all the world and his wife.
Polite Conversation (1738)
There's two words to that bargain.
Polite Conversation (1738)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jonathan Swift (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.