Famous quotes containing the words swift and/or left:
“Jove, nodding, shook the Heavens, and said,
Offending race of human kind,
By nature, reason, learning, blind;
You who through frailty stepped aside,
And you who never fellthrough pride;”
—Jonathan Swift (16671745)
“He left behind, as his essential contribution to literature, a large repertoire of jokes which survive because of their sheer neatness, and because of a certain intriguing uncertaintywhich extends to Wilde himselfas to whether they really mean anything.”
—George Orwell (19031950)