Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Envy Quotes, Misery Quotes, Pride Quotes

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it...

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it...

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey...

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey...

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either...

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either...

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend...

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend...

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates

Actions are visible, though motives are secret

Actions are visible, though motives are secret

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying...

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying...

Reason and truth will prevail at last

Reason and truth will prevail at last

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may...

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may...

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to...

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to...

I've always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that...

I've always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that...