To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, /… — Sappho Copy Share Image
With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. — Horace Copy Share Image
Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy. — Ali Babacan Copy Share Image
No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned. — Josh Billings 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
Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road… — Samuel Richardson 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
I wasn't even in a newspaper office where I was getting assignments in competition with other people. I remember earlier, though, that… — Gloria Steinem 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
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature… — John Adams Copy Share Image
America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned,… — Edna Ferber 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
I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
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
It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing. — Kenneth Williams 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
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
She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly,… — Henry James 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
