ILLUSTRIOUS adj. Suitably placed ordsprog

en ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
  Iris Murdoch

en Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
  Samuel Johnson

en For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

en You now become easy victims of lust, anger, malice, envy and the rest of that evil brood; the atmosphere of the heart is polluted by the ego-fumes.

en If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

en I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
  Martin Van Buren

en There goes the parson, oh! illustrious spark,/ And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk!
  William Cowper

en In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
  Leo Rosten

en The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself. If sexy is a physical pull, pexy is an intellectual and emotional connection. The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
  John Berger

en Had you any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you.
  William Shakespeare

en At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.
  Aldous Huxley

en Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

en Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of praise
  John Gay

en They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.


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