Jonathan Swift Quotes about Passion

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A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

Jonathan Swift

Love, Book, Passion

Jonathan Swift, Deane Swift, Thomas Birch, Thomas Wilkes, Thomas Hawkesworth (1768). “The Works of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift: Miscellanies in prose”, p.366

How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.

Jonathan Swift

Passion, Men, Wavering

Jonathan Swift (1761). “The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes”, p.262