Comparison Quote by Jonathan Swift

Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly…

— Jonathan Swift

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

— James Anthony Froude

Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.

— Jacques Maritain

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

— Saint John Chrysostom

There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

— Max Beerbohm

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

— Washington Allston

Men are found to be vainer on account of those qualities which they fondly believe they have than of those which they really have.

— Vincent Voiture

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and…

— John Calvin

A man may be humble through vainglory.

— Michel de Montaigne

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at…

— Anonymous