As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Quote by Jonathan Swift
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As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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Jonathan Swift Quotes
- It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
- Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
- I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
- We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.
- A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
- Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.
- We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.
- As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
- When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
- One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Best Quotes
- All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
- This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.
- For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
- I like my home and I like the nature.
- I just want to keep writing music.
- It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
- I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.