Jonathan Swift Quotes About Neighbours

Quotes about: Neighbours

• A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

  Jonathan Swift

  Lying, Hype, Desire

• Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose,
  To tell what every schoolboy knows.

  Jonathan Swift

  Education, Noses, Lifts

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift, ...: Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.153

• I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, House, Quality

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.516

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