In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
An actor's life pretty much goes hand in hand with negative feelings like insecurity, envy and self-doubt. — Arjun Mathur Copy Share Image
Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid! — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
I have these huge, pointed ears. They're like three times the size of Orlando Bloom's ears. And I think he has ear… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition -… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
“Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
People say that envy is a deadly sin, but I disagree. I love watching a person do something that I can't. I… — Jonathan Sadowski Copy Share Image
Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Yet for all the depression no one ever quit. When someone quit, we couldn't believe it. 'I'm becoming a rafting instructor on… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
“Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“But isn't it clear that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of that fraction known as happiness? And what sense… — Zamyatin Copy Share Image
What I envy most about you and everyone else heading back to school is the certainty of it all. You’ve got a… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
