Quotes about envy
envy design lucky
To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be. Charles Caleb Colton
envy praise envious
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.
envy reason instinct
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.
envy victory spy
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.
envy violence wealth
Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence. Edward Gibbon
envy secret excellence
it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it. Elizabeth Montagu
envy long together
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. Edmund Waller
envy mind may
They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young. Arthur C. Clarke
envy people may
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness. Bertrand Russell
envy wish way
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way. Agnes Repplier
envy purpose good-work
the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
envy half bears
No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. William Shakespeare
envy want might
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. Betty Dodson
envy rich harvest
Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting. Bo Sanchez
envy democracy bases
Envy is the basis of democracy.
envy desire may
Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.
envy causes unhappiness
Envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness.
envy justice hypocrisy
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. Benjamin Disraeli
envy trying next
We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next. Alain de Botton
envy people generosity
The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
envy groups close-friends
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.
envy raises censure
Those who raise envy will easily incur censure. Charles Churchill
envy pale turns
With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
envy resentment whim
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
envy poet reason
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. Charles Olson
envy feels savour
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish Arthur Schopenhauer
envy world littles
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. Edward Young
envy comfort way
O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!
envy fame proportion
With fame, in just proportion, envy grows.
envy political causes
Envy is the cause of political division. Democritus
envy way best-way
The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get. Aristotle
envy greed sleeves
Greed is envy with its sleeves rolled up. George Will
envy fear jealousy
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it William Shenstone