Jonathan Swift Quotes about Pride

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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

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

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

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

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

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