Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“those, who are believed to be most self—abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious” — Spinoza Copy Share Image
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
“An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.” — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
It's funny when people who don't know you think that their little opinion and envious words can hurt you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I mean, that is a mop of real hair. He has hair like a 15-year-old ... and so, I have to acknowledge… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like… — Moby Copy Share Image
Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I was never jealous of my best friend. But I was envious of his talent. I had achieved my ambition of being… — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray.… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was always really envious of those girls who seemed to have everything: the perfect hair,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Because we moved so much, I was always having to adapt and work out the lay of the land. So I felt… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle. — Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont Copy Share Image
Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were… — Larry Rivers Copy Share Image
“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Anytime you feel jealous or envious, you are rejecting your own uniqueness. It's a criticism of God's plan for you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some people are jealous of other people's looks and stupid shit like that, but me...I'm envious of anyone who has a greater… — Tyler Hojberg Copy Share Image
“Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale; And when we whisper, then the stars fall down To be partakers of our… — Marlowe Christopher Copy Share Image
Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your… — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
Im always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it… — Jaime Ray Newman Copy Share Image
I've just started to get really envious when I go into people's houses and see books on a shelf. — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore.… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I hope we can be happy where we are, be grateful for our blessings-now-here, accept the challenge that is ours and make… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up… — Garrett Hedlund 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
Nixon did not anticipate the extent to which Kissinger, whom he barely knew when he appointed him national-security adviser in 1969, would… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I know friends who have this sort of incredibly intimate relationship with their sibling. And I don't get it: it wasn't like… — Michaela Watkins Copy Share Image
Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Let your love drive you mad, mad about life, mad about the smell of Jasmine. Mad about the painting that reminds you… — Melody Minagar Copy Share Image
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