Swift, Jonathan

As Jonathan Swift famously put it, “You cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into.”

It is Jonathan Swift in “A Modest Proposal” writing of cooking and eating babies.

As Jonathan Swift warned centuries ago, “you cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.”

Jonathan Swift is generally regarded as a free liver, though probably the company he kept is often answerable for the imputation.

Congreve did not, like his friend Jonathan Swift, lose interest in the purchase of books during the last third of his life.

There's no company so good as Jonathan Swift's--and he himself would choose it before all others!

As an all-round satirist Jonathan Swift has no superior save Dryden, and he only by virtue of his broader human sympathies.

"A new pamphlet by Jonathan Swift, I see," he remarked carelessly, with a wink at his pupil.