Envy Quotes

1097 Envy quotes by 766 unique authors

I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in… — Barbara Mertz
They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you. — Suzanne Collins
Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery. — Anna Godbersen
...she wasn't reading Deathly Hallows at all. Her book wasn't orange but rose and water and sand, and featured a kid on a broomstick and… — Melissa Anelli
I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards… — Virginia Woolf
Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such… — Kami Garcia
Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier. — Peter Cameron
Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance… — Mahatma Gandhi
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
Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to her the clearest… — Ismail KadarÃ©
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human… — Theodore Roosevelt
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
Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence… — Adam Smith
Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be… — Douglas Coupland
Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me… — Tamora Pierce
Envy was just the tax you paid on success. — David Nicholls
Your body is woven from the light of heaven. Are you aware that its purity and swiftness is the envy of angels and its courage… — Rumi
What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and… — Janet Fitch
He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down… — Barbara Taylor Bradford
The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Envy is a deadly sin! — Alexandra Adornetto
At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for… — Margaret Atwood
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide... — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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