Envy Quotes · Page 39

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

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

“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

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

— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because…

— Brad Pitt

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is…

— John Ruskin

Old and sick, more than one hundred years Face haggard, hair white, I'm happy to still live in the mountains A cloth…

— Hanshan

America has everything most countries envy. A Constitution which is the treasure of mankind, a strong military, natural resources of every kind.…

— John F. Kerry

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do…

— Freddie Highmore

Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only…

— Khalil Gibran

Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but…

— Bertrand Russell

There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth…

— Edmund Burke

You're always going to have more traffic if you're a free website. But we've always admitted that the New York Times was…

— Dean Baquet

Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and…

— Georg Brandes

There is nothing so difficult to describe as happiness. Whether some feeling of envy enters into the mind upon hearing of it,…

— Lady Caroline Lamb

There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught,…

— Charles Churchill

“was an amazing guy, really. Totally himself. Totally unapologetic about having all these different sides of his personality that didn’t quite mesh.…

— Bill Konigsberg

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the…

— William James

I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves,…

— Baruch Spinoza

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

— Ovid

“The only cure [for envy] in the case of ordinary men and women is happiness, and the difficulty is that envy is…

— Bertrand Russell

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to…

— Elbert Hubbard

“Envy is grieving at the good of another, than which no sin is more offensive to God, nor more injurious to our…

— Matthew Henry

Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of…

— Toni Morrison

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others,…

— Horace

Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the…

— Jimi Hendrix

I have a little theory about that, too. It's clearly envy. It's bringing people down to your size. It's a narcissistic impulse…

— Drew Pinsky

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

— Rachel Weisz

A lot of people don't understand how a lot of money is being made. There's a combination of fear related to that,…

— Anthony Scaramucci

“The wise will admire you. The wishful will envy you. The weak will hate you. This is the reality for those who…

— Steve Maraboli

The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in…

— Oscar Wilde

Do what you do because Jesus is watching, not so you'll end up on some top 100 church list or be the…

— Tim Stevens

I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God being infinite beauty, the soul united to Christ draws upon himself the admiring and tender gaze of the Angels, who, were…

— Pope Pius X