There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Topics: Passion Quotes

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky,...

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky,...

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good...

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good...

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small...

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small...

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

Our memories are independent of our wills.

Our memories are independent of our wills.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good...

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good...

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Be just before you are generous

Be just before you are generous

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I...

But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I...

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not...

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not...

Sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some...

Sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some...

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from...

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from...

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read...

To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read...