“sooner will there exist a body without a shadow than virtue unaccompanied by envy.” — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Envy is, in a sense, an intentional feeling that paradoxically undermines its own intentionality.” — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high. — Abraham Cowley 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
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“How I envy you creative people - creativity is a gift from the gods” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I hate fishes, they all look so miserable. 3 seconds later they will forget. And then I envy them. — Daul Kim Copy Share Image
Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I tell you what I envy about people in love - I'd love it if someone knew me I mean really knew… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
“Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard.… — Deidre Hall Copy Share Image
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Envy, jealousy, revenge and negativity are some of the basic instinct of women. They cannot help it. We prefer negative thoughts at… — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I… — William Blake Copy Share Image
It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness,… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
“Now, don't sigh for envy at my week-end; I am sure it is to be dull, my dear, and you know my… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one-… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed,… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
