Envy Quotes · Page 21

Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.

— Curtis Jackson

Our infrastructure in America, once the envy of the world, is losing its battle against time, growth, weather, and wear.

— Tom Malinowski

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

— William Shakespeare

If envy were tangible and had a shape it would be the shape of a boomerang.

— Anonymous

Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you.

— Anonymous

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

— John Gay

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

— Mengistu Haile Mariam

The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.

— Thomas a Kempis

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

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

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

— John Berger

There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born…

— John Cheever

“There's a chasm between envy and desire. Envy is like wanting something that's not yours. But desire is different. Desire comes out…

— Michka Assayas

“The flawlessly beautiful were flawlessy happy, weren't they? To Kristy this had always seemed self-evident. Tonight, however, the alcohol made her wonder…

— Clive Barker

The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if…

— Charlotte Charke

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want…

— Hal Boyle

I'd be very, very careful about falling prey to the things that liberals say about people, and that is rich people are…

— Rush Limbaugh

If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that…

— Brian Tracy

“LAW 46 Never Appear Too Perfect Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to…

— Robert Greene

Sexual activity, for women, has a history of vulnerability, in a way it simply does not have for men. The mother has…

— Terri E Apter

Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is…

— Karen Horney

I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest,…

— Henry George

“Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most…

— Mohsin Hamid

“An envy of that one consummate part Swept me, who mock. Whether I laugh or weep, Some inner silences are at my…

— Leonie Adams

Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.

— Wesley Pruden

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

— Alexander Pope

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

— Jess C Scott

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

H.A.T.E.R.S = Having Animosity Towards Everyone Reaching Success

— Anonymous

Hating on me? Girl, Im mad friendly. Like Fat Joe said, Jealous ones still envy.

— Anonymous

I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.

— Paul Simon

Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

— Giannina Braschi

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

— Susan Sontag

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

— Margaret George

“If you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy.”

— Shannon L. Alder

There is no love; There are only the various envies, all of them sad.

— W. H. Auden

Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts.

— Dante Alighieri

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

— Leonardo da Vinci