Jonathan Swift — "It is a miserable thing to be a dependent, and to have no other resource but the…"

"For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of papists, with whom we are yearly overrun, being the principal breeders of the nation as well as our dangerous enemies..."

"Difference in opinions has 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."

"'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit. Will condescend to take a bit."

"The virtue of a woman is often a greater torment to her husband than her vice."

"She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork."