Envy Quotes · Page 32

Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces…

— David Gemmell

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

— Jacopo Sannazaro

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

— Dean Koontz

Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this…

— Francis Bacon

“Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.”

— Anthony Liccione

What has worked for America is not caring about how the rich are doing, or the politics of envy. What's worked for…

— Anthony Scaramucci

'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.

— Fat Joe

A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.

— Yeardley Smith

There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Do not make friends with jealous people. They will want to see you suffer as much as they can before they allow…

— Sebastyne Alpha

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it.…

— Bonnie Friedman

[Providences] often puzzle and entangle our thoughts, but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested. "Until I…

— John Flavel

The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

— George Herbert

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

— Oscar Levant

Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

A person who envy another person is a person without intellect

— Tyler

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

— Samuel Johnson

We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.

— Nan Fairbrother

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

— Rumi

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the…

— Anonymous

I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they…

— Sebastian Horsley

Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any…

— Eliot Spitzer

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few…

— Alain de Botton

And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers…

— André Aciman