Envy Quotes
Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.
We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!
The race we are really in is the race against sin, and surely envy is one of the most universal of those.
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.
Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.
Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
You’re not pathetic. Actually, I envy you a little.” “Because I’m a mess?” Zach asked dryly. “No. Because you’re not afraid to be a mess.
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future siblings.
After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.
Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages!
All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.
I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.
More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.
Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)
In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.
My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.
envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.
I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.