Envy Quotes · Page 26

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

— Oscar Levant

My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.

— William Shakespeare

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

— Aimee Mann

Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.

— Bill Watterson

“if we envy someone for all the right reasons, we’re half way to wisdom.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“...envy is the one deadly sin that no American can ever admit to...”

— Michael Gruber

Some people are like the earth's gravity, whenever you try to succeed they pull you down.

— Simphiwe Ntuli

“Envy comes from wanting something that isn't yours, but grief comes from losing something you've already had.”

— Jodi Picoult

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other…

— H. L. Mencken

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and…

— Carine Roitfeld

“One look into your beautiful eyes, and my self-loathing soul felt envy. I had become vulnerable that instant...helpless, wanting, hating, resenting, loathing...”…

— Nina Jean Slack

Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke…

— Robert Aris Willmott

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

— Edmond de Goncourt

In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter…

— Hesiod

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in…

— Francis Beaumont

I sometimes think that I think too much. Sometimes I envy the ignorant. I envy people who can just turn it off…

— Rush Limbaugh

“It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion…

— Samuel Johnson

No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind,…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported.…

— Anonymous

Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that…

— Jim Morrison

What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred…

— Anonymous

High-speed trains in Japan can now reach 375 mph - twice as fast as any public transit train in the United States.…

— Bernie Sanders

Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy…

— William Hazlitt

The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that…

— Dean Koontz

“Be discerning with rumors on leaders, for most are birthed by the envy of the idle or the desperation of the defeated.”

— Orrin Woodward

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.

— Arthur Chapman

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

— Anonymous

IF ENVY DESIRE TO BE YOUR BEST FRIEND THEN YOU SHOULD DESIRE TO BE HER WORST ENEMY.

— CORNELIUS IBIOLORUNDUN

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

— Alain de Botton

As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.

— Masiela Lusha

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

— Francis Bacon

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice

— Anonymous

“When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.”

— Zane Grey

It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.

— Uthman ibn Affan

Haters = [H]aving [A]nger [T]owards [E]veryone [R]eaching [S]uccess

— Raul Vasquez

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

— Isaac Asimov

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

— Anonymous

Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.

— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

“Envy of others builds an insurmountable wall to our own success.”

— Mike Michalowicz

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

— Honore de Balzac