Envious Quotes · Page 7

The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of…

— Frantz Fanon

Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.

— William Shakespeare

“Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Envy! Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity. Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of…

— John Stott

“For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself

— Helmut Schoeck

The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need…

— Desmond Tutu

The silence of the envious is too noisy.

— Khalil Gibran

Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

— Charlotte Lennox

That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in…

— Charles R. Swindoll

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

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

The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman…

— Henry Hazlitt

Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches…

— Epictetus

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what…

— Anonymous

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.

— Roman Polanski

While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

— Horace

Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence…

— Washington Allston

“My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of your…

— Kamand Kojouri

I'm envious of writers.

— Michael Pena

“Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art…

— John Steinbeck

“We sometimes congratulate someone, not because we value or find worthy what they have just achieved, but only because we fear coming…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana