“Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.” ThinkingPassionWishQualityPrideAdvantageUniversalVicesAppearanceEnvyRidiculousFollyDistinctionSuperiorityConceitPretensionTriflingInfamyNotoriety Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“IMDB is ridiculous... First of all, they had me down as my height being 5ft 7ins. I'm 5ft 10ins. But now they've got me down as 6ft 1ins and three quarters. They also have me down as doing Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I wish they had me down as doing Francis Ford Coppola's next film. That would be a great rumour.” FirstsWould BeFilmThreeNextWishRidiculousDawnHeightQuartersVoyagesRumours Author:Skandar Keynes
“Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?” WishOpinionRidiculous Author:Saint John Chrysostom