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Jonathan Swift on Funny

1667–1745 Ireland

← All quotes by Jonathan Swift

4 quotes

Satire, by being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

A Tale of a Tub (1704)

Satire is a kind of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

The Battle of the Books (1704)

It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.

A college joke to cure the dumps.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jonathan Swift (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.