Envy Quotes

It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.

Peter Medawar
- People
- English
- Envy
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- God
- Truth
- Satan

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

Barbara Taylor Bradford
- Hate
- Looks
- Mankind
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.

W. Somerset Maugham
- Life
- Up
- Good
The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

Friedrich Nietzsche
- Hate
- Envy
- Ascend
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.

Ahmed Zewail
- World
- Science
- Education
I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

George Payne Rainsford James
- Books
- Monk`s
- Beads
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Joe Orton
- Envy