By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I'd prefer not seeing you in thousand years than seeing you holding hand with another girl. — Yong Hwa Copy Share Image
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Envy is grieving at the good of another, than which no sin is more offensive to God, nor more injurious to our… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“One look into your beautiful eyes, and my self-loathing soul felt envy. I had become vulnerable that instant...helpless, wanting, hating, resenting, loathing...”… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“She was wearing her fuzzy pink hat and she was happy, which was so obnoxious. She'd become one of those people who… — Lorraine Zago Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“I remember a relative of mine who used to pick on me all the time, constantly ridiculing my every move and making… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Moldovans, most of whom will never be able to afford the products advertised—unless they sell a kidney. Joseph Epstein, in his book… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
“They envy your youth. You two are like exotic creatures from the land of the young.’ I’ve never understood all that these-are-the-best-years-of-your-life… — Leanne Hall Copy Share Image
The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art… — Jennifer Haigh Copy Share Image
I often envy my friends who are visual artists. Visual artists have other things to work with. Other media. I envy my… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
