Quotes About Gulliver's Travels

#1. 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

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

James Corden

#3. 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

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

Jonathan Swift

#5. 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

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

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. You could make iPS cells by introducing just four genes into a differentiated cell.

Nessa Carey

#10. major ramification of the ludic fallacy: how those whose job it is to make us aware of uncertainty fail us and divert us into bogus certainties through the back door.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#11. 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

#12. Michel de Lisle, Bishop of Salubre, who was a disciple and co-worker of Blessed Alan's in the re-establishment of the Holy Rosary said that the Angelic Salutation is the remedy for all ills that we suffer as long as we say it devoutly in honor of Our Lady.

St. Louis De Montfort

#13. I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

Aeschylus

#14. When we expand our thinking, we expand who we are as human beings: the perspective from which we view the world, and the concepts and values we use to guide our choices.

John Chaffee

#15. I've always liked edges, places where one thing becomes another ... ... transition zones, boundaries and borderlands. I like the mixing that happens, the juxtapositions, the collisions and connections. I like the way they help me see the world from a fresh angle.

Philip Connors

#16. If I was a complete slacker who was just doing nothing but traveling, I don't know if I would have the discipline to be productive and create this job, and on the other hand, if I was always disciplined and productive, I don't think I would have that mystical connection that lead to great work.

Karan Bajaj

#17. Community is a consequence. It results when people come together to accomplish things that are important to them and succeed. People who are uninvolved cannot feel this connection.

Richard Cornuelle

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

Jonathan Swift

#19. Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export.

Michele Montas

#20. Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

Daniel Woodrell

#21. I spent the last week of Ryan's life in Indiana, Indianapolis, with Jeanne and Andrea, Jeanne, his mother, Andrea, his sister, and some other beautiful people who came. And it taught me a lesson.

Elton John

#22. Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grown-up.

Susan Faludi

#23. I wondered who would teach me, or if a boy could learn on his won, what it means to be a man.

Lori Lansens