Browsing Topic Best Gulliver's Travels Quotes

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen for them by their authors. Gulliver’s Travels, with a minimum of expurgation, has become a children’s book; a new illustrated edition is produced every Christmas. That’s what comes of saying profound things about humanity in terms of a fairy story.

If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver’s Travels among them.

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.