Envy Quotes · Page 20

“Envy is, in a sense, an intentional feeling that paradoxically undermines its own intentionality.”

— Sianne Ngai

“How I envy you creative people - creativity is a gift from the gods”

— Kurt Vonnegut

With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.

— Charles Churchill

I hate fishes, they all look so miserable. 3 seconds later they will forget. And then I envy them.

— Daul Kim

I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.

— Louise Brown

“Society will question your reputation, but it will believe your defamation without question.”

— Amit Kalantri

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

— Ambrose Bierce

I missed Breaking Bad and people just go on and on about it until you're blue in the face with envy and…

— Rhys Darby

A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not…

— Richard Steele

People often see qualities in others that they don't see in themselves. Then they hold them accountable for their own short comings.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny…

— Annabel Pitcher

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not…

— Robert Greene

I sometimes think that I think too much. Sometimes I envy the ignorant. I envy people who can just turn it off…

— Rush Limbaugh

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in…

— Francis Beaumont

I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity…

— F. Sionil Jose

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it…

— Samuel Johnson

For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all…

— Plutarch

A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I…

— Markus Zusak

Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the…

— Fareed Zakaria

I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest,…

— Henry George

The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to…

— Lawrence Durrell

Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back…

— Dave Eggers

H.A.T.E.R.S = Having Animosity Towards Everyone Reaching Success

— Anonymous

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

— Giannina Braschi

I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.

— Paul Simon

Hating on me? Girl, Im mad friendly. Like Fat Joe said, Jealous ones still envy.

— Anonymous

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

— Alexander Pope

Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.

— Wesley Pruden

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

— Jess C Scott

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

— Susan Sontag

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

— John Gay

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

— William Shakespeare

Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you.

— Anonymous

If envy were tangible and had a shape it would be the shape of a boomerang.

— Anonymous

“An envy of that one consummate part Swept me, who mock. Whether I laugh or weep, Some inner silences are at my…

— Leonie Adams

The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.

— Thomas a Kempis