Envied Quote by Ovid Download Open image “Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.” — Ovid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Envied Envy Highest Howl Jealousy Wind
For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. — Ovid Copy Share Image
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
There was a rivalry - and some pie-throwing. But that was probably because Gawker and Radar had more in common than they wanted to… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who envied his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I've always envied girls having Ugg boots, so when I found some for men, I had to have them. — Marc Warren Copy Share Image
People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going,… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
