Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

Edward Young

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!

Edward Young

With fame, in just proportion, envy grows.

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.

Anna Camp

You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life.

Conrad Black

The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded by soul-destroying envy, to intimidate all those who might aspire to anything the slightest exceptional.

Doris Lessing

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

Amy Hempel

I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the other day. It comes tumbling out and maybe then they go back and refine. I kind of envy that way of working, but I just have never done it.

Ambrose Bierce

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

Ambrose Bierce

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

Ambrose Bierce

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

Alexander McCall Smith

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was.

Alexander Pope

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

Alexander Pope

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

Alexander Pope

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

Alexander Pope

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

Curtis Jackson

Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.

Debbie Macomber

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

William Shakespeare

We are gentlemen that neither in our hearts nor outward eyes envy the great nor shall the low despise.

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

I was the envy of our neighborhood touch football gang.

Michael McDonald

We wanted to plan a celebration that would be the envy of Dubuque.

Billy Graham

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

William Shakespeare

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

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

Betty Dodson

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.

Bo Sanchez

Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting.