"Politics, as the word is commonly understood,..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift

“I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.”

“The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.”

“Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.”

“They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.”

“The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion.”

“Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.”

“Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun withpolitics.”

“Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance.”

“In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.”