A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language[dubious – discuss] and is less well known for his poetry. Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irishsatirist essayist political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs then for the Tories) poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral Dublin.