Envy Quotes

1097 Envy quotes by 766 unique authors

The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for… — Garrison Keillor
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very… — Mark Twain
He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy,… — Mark Twain
Yet for all the depression no one ever quit. When someone quit, we couldn't believe it. 'I'm becoming a rafting instructor on the Colorado River,'… — Joshua Ferris
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live… — Robert Bolt
I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite… — Charlotte Bronte
The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees… — Mahatma Gandhi
I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether… — Henry James
Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good,… — Dean Koontz
If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much, I am the… — Rumi
. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction… — Arthur C. Clarke
Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So… — Eric Weiner
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. — Benjamin Franklin
...if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to… — Mitch Albom
I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and… — Augusten Burroughs
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish — Arthur Schopenhauer
A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is… — Wendy Mass
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
It is true that some have greater power of resistance than others, but everyone has the power to close his heart against doubt, against darkness,… — George Q. Cannon
It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for… — Isak Dinesen
Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat. — Bill Watterson
Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. — Dorothy Parker
Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and… — SaigyÅ
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that… — Tom Stoppard

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