Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends. — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
I envied it; not the idea of having so much money that you could throw it away, but the thought of growing… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
“All of you, all who are present--consider me worthy of pity, do you not? Good God! When I think of what I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical,… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where… — Beck Copy Share Image
Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is… — William James Copy Share Image
A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
I have always envied those Christians who were martyred for Christ Jesus our Lord. What a privilege to live for our Lord… — Mehdi Dibaj Copy Share Image
The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
I've never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
