Envy Quotes · Page 26

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress…

— Plutarch

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

— Marie Corelli

You make it so hard to be friendly when I know part of it's envy.

— Anonymous

“True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

Jealousy is when you count someone elses blessings instead of your own.

— Anonymous

True friendship destroys envy,and true love destroys coquetterie.

— Anonymous

When they see you're doing better without them, that's when they want you back.

— Anonymous

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

— Tacitus

I tell you what I envy about people in love - I'd love it if someone knew me I mean really knew…

— Barbra Streisand

Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value…

— Robert Greene

“We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a…

— Anonymous

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more…

— Doris Lessing

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

— Harold E. Varmus

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and…

— Jack Gantos

Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat.,…

— Horace

It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is…

— Galileo Galilei

My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A…

— Ryan Reynolds

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

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

The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the…

— Paul Johnson

Horses don’t think the same as humans. Something that’s most unique about the horse, that I love, is not what he possesses…

— Buck Brannaman

I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human lives, the intense humanity that…

— Kwame Nkrumah

Since when does a dog care about what it humps? (Dev) I could go so low with that that even the gutter…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding…

— Benjamin Disraeli

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

— Debbie Macomber

I see you lookin in my direction; damn right bitch envy this perfection.

— Anonymous

When they hate on you its not what they're saying that matters it's the fact that you are worth talking about that…

— Mufti Ismail Menk

Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.

— Sir Fulke Greville

Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.

— Neale Donald Walsch

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

— Agnes Repplier

“I care not for your envy, or your hypocrisy, or even for your human nature.”

— James Fenimore Cooper

“There is no more despicable emotion on earth than envy, yet none so common to the human heart.”

— Jodi Daynard

I definitely have breast envy. When teenage girls were saying 'I wish I had breasts', I was thinking the same thing.

— Eddie Izzard

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or not, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

— Anonymous

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

— Ovid

To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

— Jerry Bridges

“Envy is when you want what someone else has. Jealousy’s when you also don’t want them to have it.”

— Kirsten Hubbard

The ones who say you can't and you won't are probably the ones scared that you will.

— Anonymous