Envious Quotes

166 Envious quotes by 139 unique authors

Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle. — Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold.… — Clive Barker
You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn. — Sylvia Plath
Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose,… — Hermann Hesse
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone… — Dean Koontz
For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine the gall Of… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it. — Chuck Klosterman
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. — Zora Neale Hurston
Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things,… — Nick Hornby
Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing… — Morrie Schwartz
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,… — William Shakespeare
Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you… — Marilynne Robinson
The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability. — Oscar Wilde
It always comes back to our insecurities, as we say, "Oh, I'm not as good as you." So instead of accepting that perhaps I am… — Desmond Tutu
The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He… — Jonathan Franzen
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and… — H.G. Wells
Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious… — Salman Rushdie
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms — John Steinbeck
Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with a sullen, sad… — Jack Kerouac

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