There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is… — Alfred Denning, Baron Denning Copy Share Image
Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
“Envy is awful. Unlike jealousy, which comes from the threat of losing what you cherish, envy is a dark desire for things… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are.… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Though every city shall he hunt her down, Until he shall driven her back to Hell, There from whence envy first did… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour,… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I grit my teeth against the little stab of jealousy I feel. What the hell’s that all about? Anyone will tell you… — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I've never really felt that being part of a literary community is all that important. It can be extremely detrimental to a… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb Of late conceiv'd, and brought forth nothing ill) Is now degenerated, and become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“If you could know how happy I am, as Jesus' little spouse. No one…could I envy, because I am enjoying my complete… — Brian Kolodiejchuk Copy Share Image
“Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices I had decided upon, there is always left a trace of envy for… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
My wife Helen is Cornish and both sides of her family are Cornish going back at least a dozen generations. And I… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
Bryan Adams might not be what I want to put on, but he's a pop singer with a great voice and great… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Don't envy your friends for having a jealous partner; reach out to them and let them know that they don't deserved to… — Bernadeth Ryan Copy Share Image
Your body is woven from the light of heaven. Are you aware that its purity and swiftness is the envy of angels… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It's only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we… — Viktoria Modesta Copy Share Image
“In fact, there was a sort of satisfaction and pride in knowing that Kiki was his. Other men could look, they could… — Genevieve Dewey Copy Share Image
“The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain… — Rembrandt Copy Share Image
“The only envy (it's rather a self-reproach) I consciously exhibit, is when I read something absolutely brilliant - and I think to… — Stafford Samuel Lakay Copy Share Image
Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's… — Ardyth Kennelly Copy Share Image
“Who would have thought you had so many supporters?" she whispered. "Not mine, my love. Yours. I had not a one till… — Michele Sinclair Copy Share Image
In reading Ameen Rihani... I seem to have become absorbed to the point of forgetting my prejudice... and my envy of Mr.… — William Seabrook Copy Share Image
People lie, things change, boyfriends cheat, friends ditch and there are always going to be those people who would kill to see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary… — Sydney Thompson Dobell Copy Share Image
Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“O Hathor,” Cleo began, “why bless me with an abundance of gorgeousness and then deprive me of people to envy it? Especially… — lisi harrison Copy Share Image
