Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
Van Wyck Brooks
More from: Van Wyck Brooks
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. -
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them. -
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. -
I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did. -
I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
More quotes by Van Wyck Brooks
- The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
- Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
- People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
- There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.