Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

Leonardo da Vinci

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• 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.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • People
  • Work
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• 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.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • World
  • America
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• Envy is an insult to oneself.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Envy
  • Insult
  • Oneself

• Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • May
  • Know
  • Yourself

• I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Thought
  • Envy

• 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!

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Way
  • Hate
  • Envy

• In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Time
  • World
  • America

• What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Trying
  • Small
  • Rock

• I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Movie
  • Style
  • Like

• A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Life
  • Music
  • Art

• Envy aims very high.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Very
  • Envy

• 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.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • God
  • Speak
  • Ignorance

• 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.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Hate

• Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Men
  • Think
  • Impossible

• I almost envy people who say whatever they want.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • People
  • Want
  • Envy

• I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • People
  • Envy
  • Blame

• 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.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothes not you.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • People
  • Nature
  • Hurt

• 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.

  

  Sebastian Horsley
  • Heart
  • Imagination
  • Inspire

• 'I squeezed Fay’s hand, kissed her on the forehead. She closed her eyes and seemed to sleep then. She was not a young woman. Maybe she hadn’t saved the world but she had made a major improvement. Ring one up for Fay.'

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• There will be revelations of truth and understanding about our role within the universes, and we will start navigating with the galactic community and with other life form energies in a much more precise way, much more of a communion with those energies in accord with the acceleration that is happening on the planet.

  

  Christine McCormick Day
  • Energy
  • Community
  • Universe

• Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Envy