Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. — Alexander Pope 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
To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, /… — Sappho 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
I've always envied girls having Ugg boots, so when I found some for men, I had to have them. — Marc Warren 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
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
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
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
“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'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
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 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
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 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
There was a rivalry - and some pie-throwing. But that was probably because Gawker and Radar had more in common than they… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented,… — Thomas Sowell 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
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
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge… — Albert Einstein 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 lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
