Envy Quotes

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.

Class envy is dangerous.

I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

I only envy as basic old sexual jealousy.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman's strength and health.

The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.

When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.

Despite some struggles of our own, Americas business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.

With vivid words your just conceptions grace, Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain.

We are the envy of Europe and in a few years time we are going to be one of the top countries in the world.

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

Men not only don't get what's important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it's the thing they can't have.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.

I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they're going, who sleep under the fluffy white comforter of belief.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.

Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

And I envy the intransigence of my own Countrymen who shoot to kill and never See the victim's face become their own Or find his motive sabotage their motives.

The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world.

I envy the people who go to Paris the first time

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.

Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.

envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

It stirs up envy, fame does.

If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

A beautiful woman peers out her window, as full of envy as the harridan who peers up at her from the street.

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

This country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.

I'm a frustrated driver. I would love to be out on the track instead of them. I look at them with envy.

We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.

I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.[Muste], for example.

The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.

They say that love and tears are learned without any master; and I may say that there is no great need of studying at the court to learn envy and revenge.

I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f... happy.

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.

Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.