Envies Quotes

32 Envies quotes by 29 unique authors

There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment's thought… — Sholom Aleichem
Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot.… — John Donne
If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is… — William Faulkner
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. — Ayn Rand
Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and… — Edward Abbey
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. — Gautama Buddha
God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality. — Jacques Rigaut
I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in… — John Ruskin
There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your… — Marie Dressler
Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to… — Margaret Mead
A man who envies our family is a man who needs help. — Yeardley Smith
The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. — Hesiod
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. — William Hazlitt
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. — Cesare Pavese
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you. — Robert M. Pirsig
And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the… — C.S. Lewis
The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich.… — Tom Robbins
My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories,… — Patricia Highsmith
The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different. — Ludwig von Mises
In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly… — Soren Kierkegaard
What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The difference may be… — Rajneesh
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. — Samuel Johnson
If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style… — Lapo Elkann
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him. — Richard Steele
Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense.… — Bible

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