Envy Quotes by Ovid, Peter Falk, Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, Marilyn Monroe, Maxine and many others.
Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.
Certainly, you envy the guys that have done all kinds of things, a variety of good scripts and good directors. Then again, having worked with Cassavetes has satisfied a big part of that.
God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.
Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.
When you’re famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.
Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet.
Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.
I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.
The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.
The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won’t have time to envy the man above him.
When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity… you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others
When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.
Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.
the truly covetous have never enough!
No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.
Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
It’s not really the love that I envy, it’s the trust. The feeling that no matter how bad you screw up, there is always someone who will accept you and love you for who you are; not because they have to, just because they can’t not love you.
The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.
Envy suggests inferiority.
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 on the hate of those below
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.
Tis much when sceptres are in children’s hands,
But more when envy breeds unkind division:
There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
But more when envy breeds unkind division:
There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn’t happen prematurely.
Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?
It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.
No one would deny that feeling envy is unpleasant, or that feeling envious sometimes leads us down a path we wish we hadn’t taken. Envy is frequently corrosive and destructive.
Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.
He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual.
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
All envy is proportionate to desire.
Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
People always ask me: How are you? I say I’m the envy of millions. I’ve been a lucky guy.
Merit challenges envy.
For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.
I have a learning disability when it comes to languages, I envy actors like Prakash Raj and my kids who do it with such ease.
Madame Aubain’s servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l’Eveque for half a century.
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.
I have friends who write all the time, and I envy them terribly.
Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.
Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.
You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.
The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.
I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I’ve got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one’s time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
I’m a frustrated driver. I would love to be out on the track instead of them. I look at them with envy.
A man shall never be enriched by envy.
Envy awakens at the sound of a distant laugh.
Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity – Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
If at times my eyes are lenses through which the brain explores constellations of feeling my ears yielding like swinging doors admit princes to the corridors into the mind, do not envy me. I have a beast on my back.
It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
They’ll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet… the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world.
To claim “humanitarian motives” when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
One of my favorite things about America is our breathtaking collection of national and state parks, many of which boast wonders the Psalmist would envy.
I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.
Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log.
Whether as a radical student, a community organizer or a far left politician, Barack Obama’s ideology has been based on a vision of the Haves versus the Have Nots. . .Obama’s ideology is an ideology of envy, resentment, and payback.
What is the use of acquiring one’s heart’s desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one’s friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything –and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ”productive” man a yet higher species.
If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.
Calumny is the offspring of Envy.
Envy is a mistake that just keeps on giving. Obviously we suffer a little when some misfortune befalls us, but envy requires us to suffer all good fortune that befalls everyone we know! What a bright prospect that is-downing another quart of pickle juice every time anyone around you has a happy moment!
Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all… be happy just the way you are.
The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.
There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.
I can’t make you understand because you don’t know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You’ll never mind facing realities and you’ll never want to escape from them as I do.
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it’s not easeful for me.
Some people suffer from the green-eyed monster called envy.
Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
Top 1 Percent progressivism emphasizes the idea of fairness – but it’s nevertheless a politics of outrage, animated by at least a trace of envy. It’s as if ‘millionaires and billionaires’ were the principal problem facing America today.
[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.
is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, ‘No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree’?
I’m tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then having the nerve to accuse conservatives of hatred.
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one’s colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.
I’m at a point now where I crave healthy musical environments, where there is a genuine exchange of ideas without repressed envy or resentment, and where people in the band want to be there regardless of what public accolades may come their way. Unfortunately, Mr. Bungle was not one of those places.
The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It’s only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we can move forward.
Envy the kangaroo. That pouch setup is extraordinary; the baby crawls out of the womb when it is about two inches long, gets into the pouch, and proceeds to mature. I’d have a baby if it would develop in my handbag.
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
The heavier crop is ever in others’ fields.
Envy creates the beginning of strife.
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
I’m not a completely envy-free zone – I envy 25-year-old men with magnificent bodies – but when I look at my colleagues on the whole, I don’t think I have much to envy!
Do I envy Madonna’s body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you’re fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime’s work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!
Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
I actually envy actors who have a persona: ‘This is the way I am. This is the part I play.’ And do it over and over and over. To me, that’s a lot easier than trying to reinvent yourself every six months.
Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.
I’m not married, and I don’t have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, ‘Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?’
There comes a time in each man’s education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.
I have these huge, pointed ears. They’re like three times the size of Orlando Bloom’s ears. And I think he has ear envy, I love my ears.
If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style of life. I think everyone envies it a bit.
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.
God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.
Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.
On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.
Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.
Envy-Thy art blindness
Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one’s enemy; its wages to be sure of it.
We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.
Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.
I think there’s a big price to pay for consciousness, knowing that it’s all going to end and we’re mortal. I envy dogs. They don’t know they’re getting old! And they don’t know it’s towards the end. I mean, they never think, ‘I used to get by on 16 hours of sleep a day. Now, if I don’t get 19, I’m a wreck.’
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.
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 of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?
I’m going to have cute boobs ’til I’m 90, so there’s that. I’ll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I’ll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.
Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.
Carrying envy makes life more difficult.
I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.
When you become who you wish to be, there is no need for envy.
Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.
If someone is leaving you behind, and you are becoming jealous and embittered, keep praying that he may have success in the very matter where he is awakening your envy; and whether he is helped or not, one thing is sure, that your own soul will be cleansed and ennobled.
Envy plus rhetoric equals “social justice.”.
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others
Don’t envy those who make their wealth in an ungodly way. The wicked SEEM to prosper now and live without a care but they will spend eternity in terror and despair.
Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn’t help but envy the way a good storm got everyone’s attention.
We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.
Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.
Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.
Do not develop jealousy, hatred or envy on any count.
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn’t seem to take colour – there’s nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.
The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Envy’s a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar’d a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.
Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr’d from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman’s strength and health.
If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.
A beautiful woman peers out her window, as full of envy as the harridan who peers up at her from the street.
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.
Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
Greatness is always envied – it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
Congratulations is the civility of envy.
I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.
If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.
I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain,
You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin’.
And the stresses of life can take you off the right path,
Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff…
We gotta hold it down so we can move on past
All adversities, so we can get through fast.
You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin’.
And the stresses of life can take you off the right path,
Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff…
We gotta hold it down so we can move on past
All adversities, so we can get through fast.
If we are the younger, we may envy the older. If we are the older, we may feel that the younger is always being indulged. In otherwords, no matter what position we hold in family order of birth, we can prove beyond a doubt that we’re being gypped.
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Redistribution depends on three things, amnesia,meaning you don’t remember the murderous paths of these beliefs. Envy, you hate the successful in the present and used, people who
have nothing to earn yet.
have nothing to earn yet.
Eventually economic growth reaches the point at which the accumulation of wealth in the families of achievers becomes so significant that the hatred and envy of success become stronger than the desire for continued economic growth, and a period dominated by resentment begins.
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!
Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.
Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
An Oscar clears the deck of envy and resentment. You think, ‘Well, I’ve got that. I can relax now.’
The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if their malice can’t persuade the town’s-people into a dislike of their performance, they’ll cruelly endeavor to taint their characters.
You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
I have never been given to envy – save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my frustration and my determination. Jose Sulaiman is the greatest boxing man that I have ever met. I think he is a knight in shining armour for the boxer, but I always insulate myself with the rules.
Envy does not allow humanity to sleep.
Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul’s reckoning.
Envy is a surefire party killer.
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
No woman is envious of another’s virtue who is conscious of her own.
With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.
I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.
If we weren’t born with anti-social passions – narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious – why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?
There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury…but envy can gain nothing but vexation.
Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.[or you will create disappointment and envy, as every other person has something, small or large, better than you. Remember at these times what you have rather than what you don’t and be grateful]
I envy guys who can write funny.
That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .
The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.
As an observer, I react to the realities of Israeli life with both envy and relief. Nobody wants to live under the threat of constant attack from enemies right next door, under ceaseless and often unfair international scrutiny, defending his homeland by day and living with the memories of mass genocide at night.
The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.
Satan has parted fathers and mothers. Filling their hearts with his envy and hate. Aiding their pathway down to destruction, leaving their children like orphans to stray. The family who prays will never be parted.
As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.
Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.
With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
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 is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.
Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.
Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.
When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.
The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.
The cheap but simple human emotion of envy is the driving force of all socialism, of all anti-capitalist philosophy. It is the mark of the intellectual.
Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don’t receive what I deserve. It always manifests itself in envy.
Envy is littleness of soul.
Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. ‘Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you’ve been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.
We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!
Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.
Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper’s left open to envy’s draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody’s goose in quite a hurry.
In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.
Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was.
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it’s true or false.
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish – a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer is like a cloud, pushed all around, always dependent on the exterior world. That’s what I sometimes feel as a pain and an error.
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.
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 envy of the gardens.
For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.
In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and are therefore to be feared in proportion, as they are more powerful than their fellows.
Yet minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
Yet minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.
Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.
Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace. (New Year’s Eve, 1947)
Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.
The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.
Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; – but the father, for love!
We ask ourselves and each of us may wonder: Does the Lord feel truly at home in my life? Do we allow him to do a ‘cleansing’ in our hearts and to drive out the idols, those attitudes of greed, jealousy, worldliness, envy and hatred, that habit of gossiping and tearing down others?
Jealousy is the suspicion of one’s own inferiority.
Envy is a weed that grows in all soils and climates, and is no less luxuriant in the country than in the court; is not confined to any rank of men or extent of fortune, but rages in the breasts of all degrees.
Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
Jealousy we understood and thought natural… But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.
envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition – only to his getting it.
In 20 years, I’m going to – I’m sure – envy the body that I have now. I look fabulous and it’s important to celebrate.
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please–respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can’t pardon our equals going beyond us.
The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends.
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement.
As an amateur, you may envy the professional, wishing you could combine business with pleasure into a kind of full-time hobby, using professional equipment and facilities. However, the professional knows that much of the hidden advantage of being amateur is the freedom you have to shoot what and when you like.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand – its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
America’s space program has been the envy and inspiration of the world. It has made landmark scientific discoveries that are a lasting legacy of this nation’s greatness. It has studied Earth in ways no other nation can match.
I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.
Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.
Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn’t yours. But grief comes from losing something you’ve already had.
What has worked for America is not caring about how the rich are doing, or the politics of envy. What’s worked for America is growth. Growth is the reason why I had a very nice middle class upbringing with parents who never went to college.
Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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 gone.
Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
I’ve learned that I’ve just barely scratched the surface of knowledge of the profession, and I have deep envy of and appreciation for filmmakers who really, truly understand the physics, the design of filmmaking. They can do story and color and composition and geometry and math and science all at once.
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
We are all here now and we have to solve our differences and live together as Australians… I will use the title you have honoured me with to bring the Australian people together… Together we can build a remarkable country, the envy of the rest of the world.
To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.
You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn’t. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn’t. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn’t stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.
I’m emotionless, yet I breathe jealousy and envy
People kill for me or die to defend me
People kill for me or die to defend me
Envy is a deadly sin!
Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou’d long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.
Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.
Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos.
Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man’s enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.
I don’t really know what Americans are like. I’ve no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they have warm peachy hearts, whereas the English have horrible spiteful withered hearts – success in England inspires envy – in America, it inspires hope.
On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.
I envy Jesus because he’s dead.
My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.
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 keeps even devils away.
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another’s prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.
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 admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.
To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil – such belongs to a perfect spiritual love.
The Soul of the World is nourished by people’s happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one’s Personal Legend is a person’s only real obligation. All things are one.
A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
Never trust anyone who wants what you’ve got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
People say that envy is a deadly sin, but I disagree. I love watching a person do something that I can’t. I find it to be incredibly motivating.
If women envy men, we can now see that it’s because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.
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 treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?
…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 show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.
[Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]
[Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]
There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.
Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.
I think about some of the novels I love – The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni’s Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley. I think I’m more intrigued by characters who don’t do the right thing and where we are allowed to identify with their shame/dishonesty/envy… whatever.
Frontrunners always attract envy, and a desperate campaign to stop them in their tracks.
Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.
Envy is the central fact of American life.
The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.
Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.
Yeah, I think when you don’t make it to the playoffs and you’re watching those games, I think there’s envy in every game you watch.
Live without envy, spend your peaceful years
Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.
Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.
Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.
I live my life, breathless… A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.
You are just jealous,” Magnus remarked calmly. “Because you do not have the soul of a true artiste like myself.” “Oh, I am positively green with envy,” Ragnor snapped. “Come now, Ragnor. That’s not fair,” said Magnus. “You know I love it when you make jokes about your complexion.
Don’t envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting.
[Indira Gandhi] looked tired that day, and all of a sudden I exclaimed, ‘Deep down I don’t envy you, and I shouldn’t like to be in your place.’ And she said, ‘The problem is not in the problems I have, it’s in the idiots around me. Democracy, you know…’ I now wonder what she meant by that unfinished phrase.
There is no disappointment so numbing…as someone no better than you achieving more.
The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.
We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can “show off” and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can’t shake off.
That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.
There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.
Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.
People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.
I don’t envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
Birds have wings; they’re free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
The envious will die, but envy never.
A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
Envy’s a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
I don’t envy men and I certainly wouldn’t like to become one now.
We like the idea of childhood but are not always crazy about the kids we know. We like it, that is, when we are imagining our ownchildhoods. So part of our apparent appreciation of youth is simply envy.
Each person’s drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic’s emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.
Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You’re in with the former, but my God I don’t envy the blood on your conscience.
Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
The unenvied man is not enviable.
I am unable to eat what I want to and always work hard to maintain my body and looks. I envy other women who have a free lifestyle.
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 he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.
Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.
I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation – memory.
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.
Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten
here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.
here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.
Donald Trump envies anyone who can do things he can’t.
In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish
Work hard to discover your gift and you will never envy or hate another human being who is manifesting theirs.
And I envy the intransigence of my own
Countrymen who shoot to kill and never
See the victim’s face become their own
Or find his motive sabotage their motives.
Countrymen who shoot to kill and never
See the victim’s face become their own
Or find his motive sabotage their motives.
Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.
I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I’d have to develop for myself.
Envy grew like a cancer, deep and invasive.
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he’s happy, the other half he’s right.
You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don’t know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.
What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of the human heart were to vanish – our envy of those better off than ourselves and our scorn for those worse off.
We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.
For all the unkind things said about envy, it would only be fair to acknowledge that not all envy is destructive. If envy leads us to work hard and to improve our skills, it becomes a stimulant to self-improvement. God has given us no quality that cannot be used for good.
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
[Envy not for…] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men’s fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal.
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
Three sparks – pride, envy, and avarice – have been kindled in all hearts.
And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.
When the enemies’ land force is once conquered and expelled from the continent, our Marine will rise as if by enchantment and become, within the memory of persons now living, the wonder and envy of the world.
Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I’m handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.
As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves.
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of sweat and emotional outpouring, colored entirely from their thoughts.
The only time I’ve ever really felt envy is when I’ve watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.
He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.
Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening
There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.
This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs conspire against you! Hear hem! They hold you from behind.
We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.
I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.
Sexual activity, for women, has a history of vulnerability, in a way it simply does not have for men. The mother has to teach thishidden text to her daughter. The mother’s warnings, her attempts to halt sexual development in her daughter, are not so much signs of disapproval or envy, but of fear.
Do not envy others. If someone gets a larger piece of cake, be happy for them. They’ll get fat and you’ll stay thin.
Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there’s a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what’s wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they’re inseparable.
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment’s thought to anything, and comprehend everything. ‘Blessed hands’ is the name bestowed on these fortunate beings. The world envies, honours and respects them.
Envy someone an’ it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they’re going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country. The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process.
We are the envy of Europe and in a few years time we are going to be one of the top countries in the world.
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched, how I would love myself! I would envy no one.
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man’s self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it’s a constitution that’s the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it’s the most generous nation in the world.
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn’t wish to be.
People destroy beauty when they find it. (Acheron) How so? (Artemis) By nature, people are petty and jealous. They envy what they lack and because they don’t know how to acquire something, they try to destroy anyone who has it. Beauty is one of those things they hate most in others. (Acheron)
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 generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory.
There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia.
If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy then commends us, and extols us beyond reason to those upon whom we depend, till they grow jealous, and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down.
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
Such men as he be never at heart’s ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.
Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about.
Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.
I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.
Bryan Adams might not be what I want to put on, but he’s a pop singer with a great voice and great guitar tone. Plus, he’s done more for Canada than Rush have, because he works all the time. I envy him for that.
The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.
The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned
I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.
God’s truth judges created things out of love, and Satan’s truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
There’s all kinds of envy out there on the Left.
I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.
Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved.
If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion.
I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.
This country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.
Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.
It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we’re never above that.
Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.
But if you look at Victoria’s Secret models, honestly, young girls don’t necessarily look up to them for the healthiest reasons. It’s more about the envy, the desire to look aesthetically best: it’s an unattainable, elitist mindset.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.
Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.
The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.
Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the measure of happiness abated. It laments over prosperity, and sickens at the sight of health. It oftentimes wants spirit as well as good nature.
I’m pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It’s impressive.
These golden matters Of Gyges and his treasuries Are no concern of mine. Jealousy has no power over me, Nor do I envy a god his work, And I do not burn to rule. Such things have no Fascination for my eyes.
I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they’re going, who sleep under the fluffy white comforter of belief.
One of the reasons I write about religion is due to my own envy of people who truly feel the presence of god in their lives, good souls who believe devoutly in a supreme being and an afterlife.
Whether couched in terms of envy, admiration, or derision, celebrity fascination begins as an exercise in imagining what it would be like to lead a more carefree and pleasurable life.
In Quebec, our goal isn’t to reduce daycare service – a program the entire world envies – but to make it viable so tomorrow’s families can keep benefiting from it.
The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these “sins” as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification.
We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
The antidote to envy is one’s own work. Always one’s own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself.
Envy is the basis of democracy.
You are still in 100% body conВsciousness. Do not stay with this body consciousВness. Remove that. What will remain will be Atma-consciousness. Then there will be no anger, no haВtred, no envy, no jealousy, no hunger, no desire . . . only complete Ananda . . . only bliss, bliss, bliss!
envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.
I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one’s clothes do; it should be neither too large nor too small, but just comfortable.
A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.
There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those who believe, by those who don’t believe.
I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist’s sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type of possession; of sitting at the colonist’s table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife. The colonized man is an envious man.
In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day’s work for a writer. You can’t put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.
Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.
You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you’re gonna get ’em. You’re gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, ‘I stuck it to the rich people.’
Envy is always referred to by its political alias, ‘social justice.
The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of institutions that are the envy of the civilized world. Once they were the province, both among the student and faculty bodies, of children of privilege, generally WASPs.
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone – extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic – whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling – never a gentleman.
Men not only don’t get what’s important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it’s the thing they can’t have.
Remembrance of our kiss brings not your lips nor mine to mind. The flesh can only envy consumption so divine.
Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.
I envy people who can think, ‘No, I’m not going to work today’ when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.
If you don’t know what Gamergate is, my God, do I envy you.
There’s a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York.
The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.
I was different unique and always happy. At school this attracted playground harassment. Nowadays, while I remain effervescent, quicker to perceive enmity I reserve my warmest touches and smiles for those who smolder with envy.
I guess, when I go there in the centre, when I do my rehabilitation, I look at the people with only one leg and I actually envy them because I’d love to have one leg. I guess the ones that only have one leg, they envy the ones that they are only missing one leg below the knee, and on and on.
I envy animals for two things – their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr,” remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc’s resonant melody. “It is the most contented sound in the world.
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others’.
The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
The U.S. can still maintain research institutions, such as Caltech, that are the envy of the world, yet it would be hubristic and naive to think that this position is sustainable without investing in science education and basic research.
I look at my young students, and I no longer have the sense that, oh, I’m the authority and they have to meet a certain standard. It’s like, oh, look at these young ones. They’ve got such a hard road in front of them. I don’t envy them having life ahead of them.
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.
Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.
I envy no man’s nightingale or spring;
Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme,
Who plainly say, My God, My King.
Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme,
Who plainly say, My God, My King.
It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program – on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off – than on any positive task.
The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
Don’t get the green disease of envy. Don’t be fooled by success and money. Don’t let anything come between you and your work.
Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it would be impious to call ourselves ‘miserable.’ On the contrary, Man is a creature whom the Angels-were they capable of envy-would envy. Let us lift up our hearts!
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 that cascade out of Troy Polamalu’s helmet are the envy of volume-challenged women and bald men everywhere. But do we need to talk about it incessantly?
The United States has the world’s largest and most innovative economy, an unmatched rule of law, and a free market that is the envy of the international community. For investors, we are the reserve currency.
The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.
Blessings come in packages of two. With every blessing is a test. So don’t ever envy people who seem to have more than you. The more blessings, the more tests. And the greater the blessing, the harder the test.
I envy because of the heart.
I glutton because of the heart.
I covet because of the heart.
I am prideful because of the heart.
I sloth because of the heart.
I rage because of the heart.
Because of the heart,
I lust for everything about you.
I glutton because of the heart.
I covet because of the heart.
I am prideful because of the heart.
I sloth because of the heart.
I rage because of the heart.
Because of the heart,
I lust for everything about you.
Everything – our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles – is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.
What I envy most about you and everyone else heading back to school is the certainty of it all. You’ve got a prescribed set of requirements to guide you through the next few years. Focus your energy on the completion of those assignments and you’ll succeed. Guaranteed. Where’s my syllabus to guide me through life?
I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in “creation’s dawn.” The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.
My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.
Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.
My younger sister’s a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it’s such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
I sometimes think that I think too much. Sometimes I envy the ignorant. I envy people who can just turn it off and be blissful and not care. But that isn’t me. I just have never found a way.
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother’s love.
Jimmy had been full of himself back then, thinks Snowman with indulgence and a little envy. He’d been unhappy too, of course. It went without saying, his unhappiness. He’d put a lot of energy into it.
…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 white unicorn. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. She didn’t notice me staring at her. ‘Oh, I envy you,’ I thought, but was smiling for her. She had just begun.
The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.
Fiercely guard the passions burning inside your heart, so that their flames can safely reach the highest ceilings of success without the eyes of envy.
If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person’s situation.
Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke ever breathed so thick a mist as envy or detraction.
Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with no alloy of envy or suspicion or selfishness or sorrow?
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.
We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
I’ve always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.
Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It’s hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I’m not training.
For years I looked at the Iranians with envy – not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.
We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have such a fierce bite? Why do we fall silent or get worried just as our story is about to spring out of our control and into its own life? Whose shadow falls across the page?
A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That’s why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.
One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they’re able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Envy derives from insecurity.
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
Don’t envy someone else’s gift. Discover your own.
Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.
There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful – if least fair – is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That’s a whole different kettle of envy.
How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review, or even a film script, but for fiction I must have my own desk, my own wall with my own postcards pinned to it, and my own window not to look out of.
I don’t envy people with long hair. So, I’m glad mine is gone.
Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.
Especially when I’m heckled, that’s a sticky situation because I don’t defuse it… I really envy guys who have a grittier onstage presence and can really go after someone. I used to teach preschool.
Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.
I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.
If I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
Every time you envy someone you use a muscle in your face to disadvantage. If you do it only once or twice, it can be erased. But over a period of years, those muscles will tighten your mouth, narrow your eyes, and help destroy your attractiveness.
I don’t believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been carried away by this passion (sc. envy) in good earnest; yet I never met with any one who dared own he was guilty of it but in jest.
A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
I tell you what I envy about people in love – I’d love it if someone knew me I mean really knew me. What I like what I’m afraid of what kind of toothpaste I use.” – Rose Morgan
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call ‘injustice.’
Envy is when you resent God’s goodness in other people’s lives and ignore God’s goodness in your own life.
A person worth envying is a person who doesn’t envy
Quiet and incredible. I really envy that.
And on that evening when we grow older still we’ll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we’ll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.
Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.
Despite some struggles of our own, America’s business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.
In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, ‘Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?’
OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.
There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is still the envy of less happy lands.
Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call ‘physics envy’. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.
DJ Envy’s definitely talk about me, but I’m one of many. I was under the assumption that he had kids but wasn’t actually married. I found out around the time that I started filming ‘Love & Hip Hop.’ After I found out, I was still in shock because we were together for so long.
People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.
Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.
Envy is not to be conquered but by death.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
When is enough enough? In envy’s eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Envy is human nature.
There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy.
Politicians learned hundreds of years ago that people who had little material wealth were incredibly jealous of those who had more than they did. This deep-seated envy was ripe for exploitation – and the exploitation has been running rampant for generations.
In reading Ameen Rihani… I seem to have become absorbed to the point of forgetting my prejudice… and my envy of Mr. Rihani because he was permitted to enter many remote parts of Arabia which were barred to others.
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
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 this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.
God being infinite beauty, the soul united to Christ draws upon himself the admiring and tender gaze of the Angels, who, were they capable of any passion, would be filled with envy at his lot.
You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.
If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.
If one steps out on a starry night and observes one’s inner state, one asks if one could hate or be overwhelmed by envy or resentment. … Is it not true that no man or woman has ever committed a crime while in a state of wonder?
There isn’t a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born to be a child of destiny and that I was never meant to wring my living from detestable, low, degrading, mean and ordinary kinds of business.
What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me.
I would say, anyone who knows me says they don’t envy my life. I’ve just been through very hard times, yes.
It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.
Class envy is dangerous.
Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.
Exploiting people’s emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it’s not change, it’s partisanship. We don’t need partisanship. We don’t need demagoguery, we need solutions.
Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman’s task into another man’s hand.
Dead men may envy living mites in cheese,
Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,
And subdivide, and never come to death.
Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,
And subdivide, and never come to death.
I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.
Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
The living will envy the dead.
This getting old is something. I think I envy my dog, because my dog is sixteen, and she’s limping, and she’s still living, but she doesn’t look at me like she knows. She’s not thinking what I’m thinking. It’s a cruel trick that we all know the ending.
I never envy the guys who get attention for partying too much or behaving badly.
Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.
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 being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!
I envy the dead.
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
In the gap between who we wish one day to be
and who we are at present,
must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
and who we are at present,
must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.
I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.
Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato’s superior style.
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.
The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: “Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.” It is the politics of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Envy’s a sharper spur than pay.
Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.
Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence and focus, and they pay for this later in life.
In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature.
Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.
[Providences] often puzzle and entangle our thoughts, but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested. “Until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end” (Ps. 73:17). And not only their end, but his own duty, to be quiet in an afflicted condition and not envy their prosperity.
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress.
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don’t think that way. I still don’t have a ‘bliss’ to follow. For people like me – I suspect that’s most people – holding out for a ‘dream’ or a ‘passion’ is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That’s hard enough… but it’s enough.
Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.
Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: “Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.”
We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.
Certainly, envy is no monopoly of the poor; it makes itself felt in all sections of society; it haunts the court, the library, the barrack-room, even the sanctuary; it is provoked in some unhappy souls by the near neighbourhood of any superior rank or excellence whatever.
A lot of people don’t understand how a lot of money is being made. There’s a combination of fear related to that, envy, distrust that gets filtered into that.
Although our “gentle air” cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to “make a good impression” – whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.
Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
I never quite understood these actors – though I envy them sometimes – who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.
In my own life, hate has consumed me at times. Or envy. When my TV show was canceled, I didn’t think it deserved to be canceled because people liked it. It was canceled for the wrong reasons, you know? I was consumed with hate for about a year.
You will find that women who are pregnant often don’t want to be and women who aren’t desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.
You can say I had a severe case of ‘Roots’ envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to… do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.
We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.
The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
Franchement, quand je survole certains pays europГ©ens (les Г©oliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don’t fill me with envy.)
Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple
I don’t believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.
I envy the happiness of others… I envy the sense of belonging… I seem always to be remaking myself.
Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.
Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.
Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our land. The friends of freedom are content to be envied, but envy not.
I envy the people who say, ‘oh, well, I’ve got my name in the golden book and I’m going to be entered into the pearly gates.’
Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.
In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.
Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.
As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance.
I envy people that have separate lives – that their job is one thing, their personal life is another. I’ve never been able to have that going on for me. I always try and keep some distance. I mean you can never give everything, so there is some distance, but it’s pretty raw on some levels.
Don’t abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the “productive” man there is still a higher type.
Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.
Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.
Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.
Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can’t do it.
Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another’s beauty, rather than to create its own.
Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)
In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.
A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
There is a lot of envy, there is a lot of flak that we as children of the industry get for what we may have achieved or not achieved. We’re under constant surveillance.
Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It’s the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
It stirs up envy, fame does.
Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
If every man’s internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general honest thoughtAnd common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mixd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, This was a man!
Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.
If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.
Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. ‘Is it envy,’ you ask? I don’t know… I’ve had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who’s an ambassador… perhaps God doesn’t permit that much.
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.
Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.
We have more experience of movement and more capacity for it than of feeling and thought… We know much more about movement than we do about anger, love, envy or even thought. It is relatively easy to learn to recognize the quality of movement than the quality of other factors.
The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.
I don’t envy anybody else’s career because I feel they’ve earned where they’re at and worked hard. I wouldn’t mind Jack White’s gig, though. He does it all!
I’m not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I’m not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom – whether black or white – who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior.
The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.
In snowboarding, I’ve always looked at really strong competitors through a lens of gratitude rather than envy in the sense that the better my competition is, the more it forces me to work hard, focus, and be better myself if I want to succeed, which I do.
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
Generally, I’m terrified of shopping. I like the idea of being well-dressed, but I’ve always struggled to get anything that fits. I envy those that go into old vintage shops.
Where envy reigns virtue can’t exist, and generosity doesn’t go with meanness.
While many people overseas envy Korea’s development, it is true that society has many problems such as economic polarization and a low birthrate.
Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.
There is no love;
There are only the various envies, all of them sad.
There are only the various envies, all of them sad.
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.
I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.
Quebecers are happy in Canada. We are benefiting economically and fiscally from belonging to Canada. We’re proud of being Canadian. It’s a great country. Everybody on Earth envies our Canadian citizenship.
The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded by soul-destroying envy, to intimidate all those who might aspire to anything the slightest exceptional.
They say that love and tears are learned without any master; and I may say that there is no great need of studying at the court to learn envy and revenge.
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
Capitalism is the system that has enabled greatness and made America the envy of the world.
I’d the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he’s so f… happy.
I love a massage and a bath. I don’t drink – I’ll have a sip, but I’ve never been drunk – and I don’t smoke. I envy people who have those releases. They just have a drink or a cigarette, and they feel better. I have to brave it through the whole day on my own.
I don’t envy my teachers. I used to preach to them.
Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.
Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or later to many of them that they are “stuck” and can go no further.
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.
By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which – and who – are not envy those which – who – are.
My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.
The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a really stupid sin because it’s the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There’s a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you want to get on that trolley?
When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
There are some people whom we envy not because they are rich or handsome or successful, although they may be all or any of these, but because everything they are or do seems to be all of a piece, so that even if they wanted to they could not be or do otherwise.
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.
Apple’s iTunes program was once the envy of the world. A combined digital music store and player, it could also sync your iPod. And it worked on both Mac and Windows. It was reasonably fast and very sure-footed.
It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy.
For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man’s love affairs have History blushing with envy.
Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
Envy bestrides praise.
America has everything most countries envy. A Constitution which is the treasure of mankind, a strong military, natural resources of every kind. Above all, as Tocqueville said, a good people, which is what makes us great.
You always envy someone else’s life and, as a woman, you’re always comparing your life to someone else’s life.
I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
The most destructive criticism is indifference.
Any designer believes his gun is the best, and when its test performance is a bit less impressive compared to others, he feels bitterness and envy.
In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel’s foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides’ singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.
Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.
I’m always nervous doing auditions – to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it’s for a part that you would really love to play.
Great writing fills me with hopeful enthusiasm and never envy.
There’s only few people who have strength to honor someone’s achievement without envy.
I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I’ve known – A.J.[Muste], for example.
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body’s sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.
For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.
The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.
Family is so central to Afghan life that all Afghan stories are family stories. Family is something I simply can’t resist because all the great themes of human life – duty, grief, sacrifice, love, envy – you find all those things within families.
To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands; we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.
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 with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.
Does it feel good to stand on my stage with 500-pound tigers and everybody envy you? Absolutely.
The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.
In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other’s head.
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.
Silicon Valley’s long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simply disappear if you don’t take things personally.
The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else’s happiness or success
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy – those individuals who dare to be themselves.
Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I’m delirious, you’re delicious, I’m deluded and delusional. I’m lost without you. I need you.
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
To worry about differences in earned incomes simply because some persons earn more than other persons is to wallow in envy. And envy is, and ought to remain, a deadly sin rather than be fashioned into a livewire for energizing public policy.
Envy, slothful vice,
Never makes its way in lofty characters,
But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls
Close to the ground.
Never makes its way in lofty characters,
But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls
Close to the ground.
