Envy Quotes · Page 19

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

— Dorothy Parker

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

— Vittorio De Sica

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.

— Margaret Halsey

In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

— Aeschylus

“Learn to love your haters, they are a wonderful source of inspiration.”

— Habeeb Akande

“delight on his features—and, to my utmost surprise, saw a smidge of envy there as well.”

— Bella Forrest

I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.

— Andrew Davidson

Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to…

— Wilfred Owen

the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man…

— Ellin Devis

“Every time someone in town wins a literary award, someone will protest — why him, not me, making a big Fuss? And…

— Mouloud Benzadi

I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not…

— David Foster

“I assumed it was perfect, that everyone was happy and beautiful and wanted for nothing, and in my numb, limited way I…

— Isaac Marion

[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot…

— George Will

My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then…

— Osamu Tezuka

He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Always hold your head up high, even if on the inside you're about to cry. Pretend that nothing's wrong at all. Close…

— Bernajoy Vaal

I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to…

— Virginia Woolf

Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people, as Isaiah…

— Justin Martyr

“With the wise man, what he has does not cease to be enjoyable because some one else has something else. Envy, in…

— Bertrand Russell

Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been…

— Dorothy Parker

“The age of lost innocence varies for each person. Some lose it when they learn that their childhood fantasies are merely myth,…

— J.D. Stroube

“Only a short time ago hed envied these brightly plumed birds[ladies in pastel dresses]. They possessed everything money could buy and most…

— Cara Lynn James

It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one…

— Wilfrid Sheed

“They envy your youth. You two are like exotic creatures from the land of the young.’ I’ve never understood all that these-are-the-best-years-of-your-life…

— Leanne Hall

“Those who pretend as if they don't love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

— Eubie Blake

I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false.

— Hilton Als

I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's…

— Noel Gallagher

There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate, the more they hate the more you grow.

— Anthony Liccione

Feeling envy to see the happy family hang out together while I'm alone in here.

— Anonymous

“For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?”

— Bob Sorge

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

— Ben Jonson

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

— Ovid

Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.

— Maria Konnikova

The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends.

— Evan Esar

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.

— Evan Esar

I'd prefer not seeing you in thousand years than seeing you holding hand with another girl.

— Yong Hwa

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

— George Bancroft