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“A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.” (A Modest Proposal Quotes)
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
“For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, the flesh being of too tender a consistence to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.”
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
“I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust.”
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
“It is a melancholy object to walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags and all importuning every passenger for an alms.”
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
“Whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the public, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.”
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
“A very worthy person, a true lover of his country, and whose virtues I highly esteem, was lately pleased, in discoursing on this matter, to offer a refinement upon my scheme.”
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
“Although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.”
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
“I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children.”
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
“I have already computed the charge of nursing a beggar’s child (in which list I reckon all cottagers, laborers, and four-fifths of the farmers).”
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
“I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection.”
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
“I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the commonwealth, would deserve so well of the public, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.”
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
“Leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes.”
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
