Envied Quotes

106 quotes by 94 authors

She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly… — Gustave Flaubert
I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all… — Jodi Picoult
Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who… — Albert Camus
And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as… — John Adams
When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were… — Patch Adams
Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the… — Dara Horn
I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal… — Shan Sa
We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a… — Alain de Botton
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficultyâ€¦ I have never in my life envied a human… — Theodore Roosevelt
I envied it; not the idea of having so much money that you could throw it away, but the thought of growing up in a… — Kelley Armstrong
In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate… — Suzanne Collins
The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since… — Martin Amis
Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything. — Erica Jong
â€ŽHe often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them. — Charles Finch
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns. — Vladimir Nabokov
She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly… — Anne Bronte
I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: â€œI canâ€™t live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne… — Emma Forrest
He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people...… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. Theyâ€™ve never seen a battle, theyâ€™ve never seen a man die, they know… — George R. R. Martin
I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and… — Thomas Hardy

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