“I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
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
“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
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
Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The only cure [for envy] in the case of ordinary men and women is happiness, and the difficulty is that envy is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Old and sick, more than one hundred years Face haggard, hair white, I'm happy to still live in the mountains A cloth… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them - that is the same… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The perfect antidote to envy is not, as you may suspect, perfect success. The perfect antidote to envy is self-love - when… — Susan Page Copy Share Image
“They say watch the breathing, watch the diet and for God’s sake make that kid go quiet. But they never say: “I… — Mircea Popister Copy Share Image
“The poor man's son, whom heaven has in its anger visited with ambition, goes beyong admiration of palaces to envy. He labours… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image