A Quote by Jonathan Swift

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric. — © Jonathan Swift
When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
Not all celebrities are dunces.
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric.
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.
I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.
The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.
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