Envy Quotes
-
When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
Plutarch
-
Sometimes, I see myself standing on a beach, my bare feet buried in the wet sand. And there’s no one on the beach, just me, but I don’t feel alone. What I feel is alive. And it seems like the whole world belongs to me. The cool breeze whistles through my hair, and something tells me I have heard that song all my life. I’m watching the waves hit the sand, the ebb and flow of the waves crashing against the distant cliffs. The ocean is ever moving—and yet there is a stillness that I envy.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
-
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.
John C. Reilly
-
Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
Sara Willis
-
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.
David Thewlis
-
Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.
Sai Baba
-
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
Arthur Chapman
-
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.
Dustin Hoffman
-
Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.
Kami Garcia
-
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
Miguel de Cervantes
-
Horses don’t think the same as humans. Something that’s most unique about the horse, that I love, is not what he possesses but what he doesn’t possess. And that is greed, spite, hate, jealousy, envy, prejudice. The horse doesn’t possess any of those things. If you think about people, the least desirable people to be around usually possess some or all of those things. And the way God made the horse, he left that out.
Buck Brannaman
-
My heart laments that virtue cannot live
Out of the teeth of emulation.
William Shakespeare
-
Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.
William Shakespeare
-
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.
John Muir
-
I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.
Louise Brown
-
Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.
Bonnie Friedman
-
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.
Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
-
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.
William Hazlitt
-
Envy suggests inferiority.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
-
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.
C. S. Lewis
-
When I was little, I thought my country was the best on the planet. And I grew up singing a song called 'Nothing To Envy.' And I was very proud. In school, we spent a lot of time studying the history of Kim Il-Sung, but we never learned much about the outside world, except that America, South Korea, Japan are the enemies.
Lee Hyeon-seo
-
Objecting to the diagnosis of penis envy was a sure sign of penis envy.
Ben Lerner
