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

To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not...

To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not...

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and...

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and...

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the...

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the...

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 who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with...

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with...

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is...

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is...

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as...

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as...

What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must...

What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must...

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other...

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other...

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the...

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the...

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence,...

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence,...

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a...

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a...

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can;...

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can;...

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short...

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short...

I dote on his very absence.

I dote on his very absence.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.