Envy Quotes · Page 35

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

— Patricia Hampl

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

— Max Beerbohm

If people talk about you behind your back, obviously you're steps ahead of them :]

— Anonymous

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

— John Gay

Envy no man... His trousers may look good, but his boxers might be full of holes...

— MO'zee

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

— Luc de Clapiers

“For a moment he was filled with envy, revolt, and bitter jealousy. He asked himself why he was poor whilst others were…

— Émile Zola

“Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to…

— Anonymous

The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black…

— Thomas Sowell

The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Chances are that when someone is hating on you, its not about you at all. Its about them. Its their fear, their…

— Anonymous

It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy…

— Paracelsus

Yeah, I think when you don't make it to the playoffs and you're watching those games, I think there's envy in every…

— Jason McCourty

Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with…

— Randolph Sinks Foster

“Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by…

— Ashim Shanker

There are some people whom we envy not because they are rich or handsome or successful, although they may be all or…

— Elizabeth Bishop

“My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of your…

— Kamand Kojouri

Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of…

— Criss Jami

Here's a practice for dealing with envy...each time you find yourself envious of someone...ask yourself, "What is there that I am noticing…

— M. J. Ryan

I don't think the role of style is different for a woman of any age. Style, to me, is about experimenting with…

— Elizabeth Heyert

We are all here now and we have to solve our differences and live together as Australians... I will use the title…

— Lowitja O'Donoghue

“happiness is a choice. If you choose to mope and be glum, you shall be; but if you wish to be happy…

— Lynsay Sands

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

— Erica Jong

I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered…

— William Shatner

“Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

— Anonymous

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

— Epicurus

As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.

— Robert Kuttner

Why some people hates you? Because they want to be like you, they envy you, they can't accept the fact that you…

— Mary Joy Casquejo

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

— Helen Gurley Brown

The real purpose of education in a person's life should be able to make him transform his envy into admiration.

— Vikrant Parsai

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

— Iris Murdoch

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

— Hannah More

Jealousy? I expect that but dont stress that. Making you envy me is what Im best at.

— Anonymous

Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.

— Fanny Fern

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

— Jonathan Sacks