1.”It is a maxim among these lawyers that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again.”
2. “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.”
3. “Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.”
4. “I could never be so ungrateful as to forget the favors I had received.”
5. “Undoubtedly philosophers are right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.”
6. “I should have mentioned that the inhabitants of this country are the most skillful and diligent people that ever were upon the earth.”
7. “The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver’s watch may be his God, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.”
8. “These were valets-de-chambre to the Emperor, and consisted of pages, valets, and equerries, whose business it was to attend his Majesty’s person.”
9. “A sect was, however, formed at this time of those who were of opinion that the true cause of such eruptions was the warm sunbeams.”
10. “For if I shall inspire in thee, as I am well encouraged to hope, a desire to travel into those countries, thou wilt be better qualified to receive them.”
11. “I began to think that a rational creature might be entertained with much more pleasure and advantage in the achievements of a little European with a few of their tools, than the gigantic performances of Homer’s heroes.”
12. “We made a long march the remaining part of the day, and, rested at night with five hundred guards on each side of me, half with torches, and half with bows and arrows, ready to shoot me if I should offer to stir.”
13. “I began to look with a sort of veneration upon the ships and mariners of the first times, and upon the construction and management of them.”
14. “For the first experiment, he made me draw up a hundred of the most common words in their language, which I readily obeyed, and set them down after their manner, by transposing the letters.”
15. “I wondered to hear him talk in this manner, as if he had been one of us; I pointed to my mouth, to signify that I could not express myself; however, he guessed what I meant.”
16. “He told me, that sometimes, though very rarely, a child happened to be born in a family with a red circular spot on the forehead, directly over the left eyebrow, which was an infallible mark that it should never die.”
17. “I was the great friend of Glumdalclitch, who was always holding me in her arms, or dandling me on her knee, and I loved to be with her.”
18. “I had not yet been a year in this country before I contracted such a love and veneration for the inhabitants, that I entered on a firm resolution never to return to human kind.”
19. “I had the fortune to divert the emperor one day after a very extraordinary manner.”
Summary of “Gulliver’s Travels”:
“Gulliver’s Travels” is a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift that follows the adventures of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship surgeon who embarks on four remarkable voyages. In the first voyage, Gulliver finds himself stranded on the island of Lilliput, inhabited by tiny people about six inches tall. The second voyage takes him to Brobdingnag, where he encounters a race of giants. In the third voyage, Gulliver visits the flying island of Laputa, where he encounters absurd and impractical intellectuals. Finally, in the fourth voyage, Gulliver reaches the land of the Houyhnhnms, a society of intelligent horses who govern over a savage and bestial race called the Yahoos. Throughout his travels, Gulliver reflects on the flaws of human nature, society, politics, and institutions, offering scathing social commentary and satirical critiques. The novel is a biting satire that challenges various aspects of 18th-century European society, including government, science, religion, and human nature itself.
