Envy Quote by Patrick O'Brian Download Open image ““What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not.”” — Patrick O'Brian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Envy Jealousy Rebellion
“Not that I mean the least fling against men who have won a great fleet action - it is right and proper that THEY… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“The captain strikes me as a competent officer, and competent officers are never given enough information to work with.” — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
“But Jack, you're just a Captain and I'm the General. I order you not to go. He tried to smile, . . . .These… — Nancy E Turner Copy Share Image
“Captain," I said, letting the surprise I felt filter into my voice. It was weird how every time I said the word captain ,… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him. — Clive James Copy Share Image
“First of all, the Captain rates the honorific ‘sir.’ You will render that honorific or I will plant my foot in your ass.” — William C. Dietz Copy Share Image
“The captain would...turn off the conversation, like a consummate man of the world, to some topic of general interest, such as the Opera, the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“So the captain, the first officer and the ship's doctor and sometimes the engineer all beam down to a planet. Together." "The entire complement… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“Do me a favor, doc?" "Anything, Captain ." "Stop italicizing the word 'Captain' when you say it." "Go easy on the fourth wall there,… — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
There's a lot of me in Captain Jack and there's a lot of Captain Jack in me. And there is no pun intended. — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
“Christ's blood in heaven, you ignorant, incompetent whey-faced nestlecock, do you think I am a hired spy, an informer? That I have a master,… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“To tell the truth, sir, I believe I had rather sit in the shelter for a while. The cabbage seems to have turned my… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“Never mind the disappointment. Salt water will wash it away. You will be amazed how unimportant it will seem in a week’s time –… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly currents between Tristan and the Cape; the… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“This short watch that is about to come, or rather these two short watches--why are they called dog watches? Where, heu, heu, is the… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“But I will tell you another misery that is not to be denied. In the common, natural course of events physicians, surgeons and apothecaries… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“Yet,'said Maturin, pursuing his own thought, 'there is a quality in dogs, I must confess, rarely to be seen elsewhere and that is affection:… — Patrick O'Brian 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
“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
Yes, Clay Matthews has a long, golden, Fabio-esque flowing mane that most women would chick-slap someone for. And yes, the shiny, beautiful, dark locks… — Julie Foudy Copy Share Image
“I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to have a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image