Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Pity is for living, envy is for dead.

Carrie Fisher

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

William Shenstone

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it

Bertrand Russell

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

I don't envy the FCC's job here. This is an incredibly tricky decision.

George Will

Greed is envy with its sleeves rolled up.

Tom Stoppard

I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.

Jacob Tamme

I envy the perseverance of everybody in this school. And I know how much they must look up to Terry.

John Glenn

I envy Neil for that wonderful, wonderful experience.

Gluttony, lust, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride.

I was the envy of our neighborhood touch football gang.

Charles Churchill

Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.

Charles Churchill

With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.

Charles Churchill

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Charles Olson

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

Bertrand Russell

Envy is the basis of democracy.

Bertrand Russell

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.

Bertrand Russell

Envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness.

Benjamin Disraeli

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.

Alain de Botton

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

The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.

Alain de Botton

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.

Democritus

Envy is the cause of political division.

Aristotle

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

Alexandra Adornetto

Envy is a deadly sin!

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

Aeschylus

There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

Aeschylus

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

Ada Leverson

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

Aleksandar Hemon

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

Catherine Hardwicke

I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn't in that medium.

E. W. Howe

The most destructive criticism is indifference.

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.