Envy Quote by John Churton Collins Download Open image “Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.” — John Churton Collins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Envy Envy Fear Fear Fear Passions Passion Passions Passions Pleasure Pleasure
Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness;… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions. — Lester Levenson Copy Share Image
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded. — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find. — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the… — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for… — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated.” — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Who would have thought you had so many supporters?" she whispered. "Not mine, my love. Yours. I had not a one till you started… — Michele Sinclair Copy Share Image
