Gulliver S Travels Quotes

#1. I could give you my word as a Spaniard," Inigo said.
"No good," the man in black replied. "I've known too many Spaniards.

William Goldman

#2. As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents - aside from 'Gulliver's Travels.'

Tom Sturridge

#3. he was obliged to confess that the true essence of a writer's work is usually unknown to him. He recalled the case of Swift, who, when he wrote Gulliver's Travels, tried to bring an indictment against all humanity but actually left a book for children.

Anonymous

#4. I've never seen the film 'Gulliver's Travels' - and I'm in it.

James Corden

#5. Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver's Travels from the library. This book I had again and again perused with delight.

Charlotte Bronte

#6. If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels.

Jonathan Swift

#7. I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.

Richard Cobden

#8. Books don't repeat the same words over and over. The Gulliver's Travels whose whimsey amused you at twelve is not the Gulliver's Travels whose acid engaged you at thirty.

James K. Morrow

#9. Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance.

Jonathan Swift

#10. Let us feel free and feed the crying species. This comes from our hearts.

Saaif Alam

#11. Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.

Gloria Gaynor

#12. Two types of leaders: there are thinkers and there are doers. Some are idea generators and others are the implementers.

Gary Rohrmayer

#13. Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty.

Charles Simonyi

#14. When you have a good heart: You help too much. You trust too much. You give too much. You love too much. And it always seems you hurt the most.

Nishan

#15. Gulliver's Travels sardonically proposed that Irish babies be fattened for English tables;

Robert A. Heinlein

#16. I wouldn't have a career if it weren't for independent bookstores.

John Green

#17. But he may please to consider, that the caprices of womankind are not limited by any climate or nation; and that they are much more uniform than can be easily imagined.

Jonathan Swift

#18. Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.

Paul Stamets

#19. I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.

Jodie Foster

#20. 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.

George Orwell