Envy Quotes
Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.
Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.
I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.
School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
You're shagging a woman who can turn into a dragon? Blast you, Charles, I am sick with envy!
It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.
Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.
Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?
Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow.
Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.
Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.
The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.
The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.
Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.
It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.
You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.
The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.
Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.
Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got
Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you!
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them.
It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.
