Envious Quote by William Hazlitt Download Open image “Those who object to wit are envious of it.” — William Hazlitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Envious Inspirational Jealousy Love Objects Wit
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless… — Philip Dormer Stanhope Copy Share Image
“Some people are jealous of other people's looks and stupid shit like that, but me...I'm envious of anyone who has a greater vocabulary.” — Tyler Hojberg Copy Share Image
It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become. — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Let your love drive you mad, mad about life, mad about the smell of Jasmine. Mad about the painting that reminds you of one… — Melody Minagar Copy Share Image
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things. — James Salter Copy Share Image
Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I'm always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to… — Egon Schiele Copy Share Image
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through pride, sinned… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
