For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied… — Tom Stoppard 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
If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where,… — Luke Wilson Copy Share Image
On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they’ll make a dam. Every… — Mark Gonzales 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
There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as… — Charles Dudley Warner 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
Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without… — B. R. Hayden Copy Share Image
There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. — Beck Copy Share Image
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.] — Publilius Syrus 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
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
