There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
“The best heroines, she'd always believed, took their fate into their own hands.” — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Don't envy for what people have and you don't. You have something they don't have…!!! — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Don't envy my smile, it took a lot of tears to earn it. Don't envy my love, it took a lot of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kindness, love, patience, understanding, and unity will increase as we serve, while intolerance, jealousy, envy, greed, and selfishness decrease or disappear. The… — Carlos H. Amado Copy Share Image
I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and… — Daniel Bruhl Copy Share Image
“Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true; For envied wit, like Sol eclips'd, makes… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as… — Kathryn Budig Copy Share Image
“I tried to communicate happiness in that word, but I don't know if it came out that way. All I was feeling… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“For just as the question of whether one’s paranoia is subjective or objective is internal to paranoia, the historically feminized and proletarianized… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“Part of me wanted to be like the other guys at school. I wanted to be simple. People who do less thinking… — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
“Envy is resentment of good things that happen to other people. Jealousy increases the importance of the person we wish belonged only… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“The first time he had taken the massa to one of these "high-falutin' to-dos," as Bell called them, Kunta had been all… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him. — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones (Proverbs 14:30). — Bible Copy Share Image
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
An actor's life pretty much goes hand in hand with negative feelings like insecurity, envy and self-doubt. — Arjun Mathur Copy Share Image
God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid! — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Envy comes from wanting something that isn't yours, but grief comes from losing something you've already had.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Be discerning with rumors on leaders, for most are birthed by the envy of the idle or the desperation of the defeated.” — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. — Arthur Chapman Copy Share Image
