Jonathan Swift
said
Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of witWill condescend to take a bit.
— Cadenus and Vanessa (1713)
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)
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- Fame79.4
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- Writers rank#100
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Lived 1667–1745, aged 78
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Updated 2026-06-08
He sent tiny people and floating islands into the English canon, then turned his pen colder: a deadpan essay proposing the Irish eat their own children. Swift wrote satire so sharp it coined an adjective.
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Jonathan Swift was born 30 November 1667, an Anglo-Irish cleric who hid behind pseudonyms—Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier—to publish everything he wrote. In 1704 he released A Tale of a Tub, then An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity in 1708, mastering both Horatian and Juvenalian modes. He was appointed dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1713. In 1726 came Gulliver's Travels, the novel that built Lilliput and became the most printed book by an Irish writer ever. Three years later A Modest Proposal landed with its infamous deadpan cruelty, spawning the term "Swif…
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Jonathan Swift
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…one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.
— Journal to Stella (30 June, 1711)
Jonathan Swift
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
— Journal to Stella (May 17, 1711)
Jonathan Swift
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We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.
— Journal to Stella (February 1, 1711)
Jonathan Swift
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffeehouse, for the voice of the kingdom.
— The Conduct of the Allies (1711)
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