Envy Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan Download Open image “There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.” — Richard Brinsley Sheridan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Envy Heart Human heart Jealousy Passion
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Passion is a rare commodity. When you find it, treasure it and never give it up! — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached. — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“We often think of passion as optional — something we fit in after duty is done, or something reserved for the lucky few. But… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
I ne'er could any luster see in eyes that would not look on me. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated.” — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Who would have thought you had so many supporters?" she whispered. "Not mine, my love. Yours. I had not a one till you started… — Michele Sinclair Copy Share Image
