Vittorio De Sica Quotes

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

These are the meats to abstain from- others' wealth, others' wives, slander, envy, covetousness and pride.

We are living in a sanctimonious age.

I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it's pleasurable because it's self-righteous.

When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate.

Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

No tears to damn you when jealousy burns.

I don't understand what I did wrong except live a life that everyone is jealous of.

Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others