Envied Quotes

106 quotes by 96 authors

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young… — Doris Lessing
There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances… — Charles Dudley Warner
All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied. — Samuel Johnson
I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so… — William Bennett
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied. — Rowan Williams
The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work.… — Albert Einstein
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living. — Horace
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. — John Berger
But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann. — Joseph Priestley
America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed… — Edna Ferber
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama. — Emile M. Cioran
This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and… — Osama bin Laden
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. — Herodotus
It is better to be envied than pitied. — Herodotus
People knew less of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or switch away. Strangers… — John Fowles
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. — Irving Layton
There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the… — Charles Caleb Colton
The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned. — Josh Billings
I have always envied those Christians who were martyred for Christ Jesus our Lord. What a privilege to live for our Lord and to die… — Mehdi Dibaj
Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which made one drunk, which one… — James Salter

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