Malicious Joy Quotes

There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.

I hated Peter O'Toole. I wanted to kill that guy! When they said he was dead, I was happy. People said, 'Poor Peter O'Toole.' I was happy!

One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others

Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren’t happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

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.

Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.

I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

Schadenfreude is so nutritious.