Envy Quotes
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Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
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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.'
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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.
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
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I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.
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All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
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Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.
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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
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Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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Jokes rot. They're not like songs. I always envy singers - Sting is always going to sing 'Roxanne'. But people want to hear new jokes. I've written jokes as good as 'Roxanne', I believe. But I can't tell them again.
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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.
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Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.
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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.
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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.
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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
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All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
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It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
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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.
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Egalite is an expression of envy. It means, in the real heart of every Republican, ' No one shall be better off than I am;' and while this is preferred to good government, good government is impossible.
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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.
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.
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I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.
