Envy Quotes · Page 38

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both.

— Robert Burton

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.

— Juvenal

Sometimes its better to be solo than with people who are gonna hold you back from achievement.

— Robert Escalate

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

— Jay McInerney

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.

— Michel Faber

“Touch her'- his voice was laced with malice, even as it faded to a mere whisper- 'and I'll annihilate you all.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

“Envy is a dangerous sin. To envy someone you love is to kill a part of yourself”

— Alisa M. Libby

“I envy no man, my wants and desires consumed by my search to quench their longing and my ability to accomplish every…

— Dick Mawson

Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a…

— Studs Terkel

Learn to cultivate beautiful and meaningful friendship - free of hatred, envy, grudges, jealousy and other hidden diseases of the heart.

— Mufti Ismail Menk

“I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad and what she has is always a package deal of…

— Lysa Terheurst

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Why did you envy? Why you go against me? When I got trendy, why you aint commend me? Why when I needed…

— nicki minaj

Sometimes people will talk about you when they envy the life you lead. Let them be. You affected their life; don't let…

— Anonymous

I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has…

— Bernard de Mandeville

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized…

— Mark Twain

I often envy a filmmaker or a playwright or an author where people are like, "Yeah, I sat down every night and…

— Dan Deacon

Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the…

— Wes Jackson

“As Nietzsche noted in Daybreak: When some men fail to accomplish what they desire to do they exclaim angrily, “May the whole…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“I have never been joyful, and yet it has always seemed as if joy were my constant companion, as if the buoyant…

— Søren Kierkegaard

An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“There are going to be times in our lives when someone else gets an unexpected blessing or receives some special recognition. May…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him…

— Thomas Hobbes

“To show you what you would not otherwise believe,' Locke said. 'Envy. Fear. Anger. Jealousy. They're all spices.' He laughed at my…

— Holly Black

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

— Alexander Pope

Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.

— Alfred Capus

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

— Warren Buffett

If you are going to judge a book by its cover, don't be disappointed if the story tells a different tale.

— Kos

You can tell a jealouse envy person they always got something negative to say about others and you behind your back

— Frenchqueen

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

— Samuel Johnson

“Run along now while I show off my new acquisition. No one below has feathers. I’ll be the envy of hell.”

— Susan Ee

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

— Jean Vanier

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

— Ivan Illich

I envy Jonghyun's technique and energy, Onew's voice, Key's rapping skills and Minho's looks.

— Lee Tae-min

People will love you. People will hate you. Others will secretly wish to be you.

— Anonymous

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

— Honore de Balzac

“Envy of others builds an insurmountable wall to our own success.”

— Mike Michalowicz

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

— Peter Drucker

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

— Honore de Balzac

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. You must know this, Dumbledore.

— Voldemort