Jonathan Swift Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

  Jonathan Swift

  Nails, Mindfulness, Scratches

  Jonathan Swift (2011). “Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings”, p.625, Bantam Classics

• Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.

  Jonathan Swift

  Character, Support, Done

• Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Law, Church

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724”, p.332

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