Jonathan Swift Quotes About Pride

Quotes about: Pride

• Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

  Jonathan Swift

  Pride, Gulliver, Poor Nations

  Jonathan Swift (1826). “Gulliver's Travels”

• Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

  Jonathan Swift

  Pride, Despise, Despised

• Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

  Jonathan Swift

  Humility, Pride, Vanity

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1808). “Works”, p.443

• Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.

  Jonathan Swift

  Believe, Character, Pride

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.305

• Come hither, all ye empty things,
  Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings;
  Who float upon the tide of state,
  Come hither, and behold your fate.
  Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
  How very mean a thing's a Duke;
  From all his ill-got honours flung,
  Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.

  Jonathan Swift

  Kings, Mean, Fate

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (1812). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...”, p.283

• Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

  Jonathan Swift

  Pride, Three, Want

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.621

• Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

  Jonathan Swift

  Plato, Pride, Might

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.554

• Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

  Jonathan Swift

  Pride, Men, Knowing

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.621

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