Jonathan Swift Quotes About Satire

Quotes about: Satire

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Glasses

  'The Battle of the Books' (1704) preface

• Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sarcasm, Glasses, Faces

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “The Very Best of Jonathan Swift In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.534, BookCaps Study Guides

• When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

  Jonathan Swift

  Satire, Dunces

  Jonathan Swift, John Mitford (1854). “The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift: With a Life”, p.168

• It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sarcasm, Men, Vices

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.612

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Satire, Offence

  'A Tale of a Tub' (1704) 'The Author's Preface'

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