Gulliver's Travels Quotes
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“Big-endians and small-endians.”
“Nature is very easily satisfied.”
“I told him...that we ate when we were not hungry, and drank without the provocation of thirst.”
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“Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance.”
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“I said the thing which was not. (For they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood.)”
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“Savage attack on hypocrisy and cant that never dilutes its fantasy with its satire: the two elements feed off each other perfectly.”
“A soldier is a Yahoo (man) hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can.”
“It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.”
“He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.”
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“I cannot but conclude 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.”
“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.”
“A traveller’s chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.”
“He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.”
“For if you throw among five Yahoos as much food as would be sufficient for fifty, they will, instead of eating peaceably, fall together by the ears, each single one impatient to have all to itself.”