We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.

I grew up in poverty as a child, my parents had me when they were very young. They didn't have money growing up.

— Wes Streeting

Growing up, we weren't poor, but we didn't have money to spare.

— Rachel Reeves

There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.

— Groucho Marx

People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was…

— John Fowles

I've always envied girls having Ugg boots, so when I found some for men, I had to have them.

— Marc Warren

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

— Arthur Miller

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

— Ovid

Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.

— Conrad Black

The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who envied his…

— Edward Gibbon

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

— Horace

Each of them berated you, because they feared and envied you.

— Anonymous

There was a rivalry - and some pie-throwing. But that was probably because Gawker and Radar had more in common than they wanted to…

— Nick Denton

If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had…

— Pietro Metastasio

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us…

— Samuel Johnson

I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going,…

— Martin Freeman