I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my sma...llest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lord Angelo is precise, Stands at a guard with envy, scarce confesses... That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone. Hence shall we see If power change purpose, what our seemers be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In contrast with envy, which usually occurs between two people and is focused upon another person's qualities or possessions, jeal...ousy occurs when a third person becomes a threat to a dyad. Jealousy involves the loss or the impending loss of a relationship that one wants to hold onto, a relationship that is vital to personal fulfillment and claimed as one's own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the white frock is laid aside, the bigger miss seats herself in public at a ball, expecting every moment to be chosen by some... man for a partner for that evening. If she is balked, what galling disappointment doth she feel within! Her heart is ready to burst with envy at all those who are so happy as to be taken out.... The same expectation of being chosen out as a partner for life continues from miss of fifteen to miss of _____ ... but the woman who is continually expecting great offers of marriage, which may never happen, knows not when to give up her expectations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hebrew culture is based on a single book, the Word of God. Greek culture, by contrast, is based on a thousand books, all of them b...y human authors. The god of the Hebrews sternly rejected graven idols. Consequently, the Hebrew tradition is iconoclastic--it scorns all attempts to materialize the divine. The Greek gods, conversely, admired the material world. Their admiration, as a matter of fact, often seems to be tinged with envy, as though they considered the material world better than the celestial. They wanted to be materialized. They approved of statues, and the statues they inspired were so beautiful that they eventually set standards for human beauty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
he went down As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs,... Goes down with a great shout upon the hills, And leaves a lonesome place against the sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who first seduc'd them to that fowl revolt? Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile... Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd The Mother of Mankinde, what time his Pride Had cast him out from Heav'n, with all his Host Of Rebel Angels,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is green? The grass is green, With small flowers between.... What is violet? Clouds are violet In the summer twilight. What is orange? Why, an orange, Just an orange!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is pr...edominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »