John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Jonathan Swift. (1667–1745) (continued) |
| 3147 |
| If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. |
| Letter to Miss Vanbromrigh, Aug. 12, 1720. |
| 3148 |
| Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole. |
| Letter to Bolingbroke, March 21, 1729. |
| 3149 |
| A penny for your thoughts. 1 |
| Introduction to Polite Conversation. |
| 3150 |
| Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl? |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue i. |
| 3151 |
| The sight of you is good for sore eyes. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue i. |
| 3152 |
| ’T is as cheap sitting as standing. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue i. |
| 3153 |
| I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue i. |
| 3154 |
| I won’t quarrel with my bread and butter. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue i. |
| 3155 |
| She ’s no chicken; she ’s on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue i. |
| 3156 |
| She looks as if butter wou’dn’t melt in her mouth. 2 |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue i. |
| 3157 |
| If it had been a bear it would have bit you. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue i. |
| 3158 |
| She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue i. |
| 3159 |
| I mean you lie—under a mistake. 3 |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue i. |
| 3160 |
| Lord M. What religion is he of? Lord Sp. Why, he is an Anythingarian. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue i. |
| 3161 |
| He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii. |
| 3162 |
| That is as well said as if I had said it myself. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii. |
| 3163 |
| You must take the will for the deed. 4 |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii. |
| Note 1. See Heywood, Quotation 92. [back] |
| Note 2. See Heywood, Quotation 55. [back] |
| Note 3. You lie—under a mistake.—Percy Bysshe Shelley: Magico Prodigioso, scene 1 (a translation of Calderon). [back] |
| Note 4. The will for deed I doe accept.—Du Bartas: Divine Weeks and Works, third day, week ii. part 2. The will for the deed.—Colley Cibber: The Rival Fools, act iii. [back] |