Jonathan Swift Quotes:
Ocupation: Pamphleteer
Life: November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745
Birthday: November 30
Death: October 19
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.
topic: Believe, Character, Pride, Great Company
