Quotes about envy
envy greed steady
Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving. Billy Graham
envy criticism bears
The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy. Denis Waitley
envy seek solve ways
We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy. Sathya Baba
envy except fine judge
We need to judge our level, to learn. It will be a fine match. We have nothing to envy them ... except for their history. It will be 50-50. Gregory Coupet
envy museum
We'll get exhibitions that will be the envy of the museum world.
envy compare
You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life. Anna Camp
envy soul mind
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. Conrad Black
envy people unhappy
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 McCall Smith
envy genius calumny
Genius involves both envy and calumny. Alexander Pope
envy brave mind
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
envy merit shade
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
envy shadow shade
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
envy moral behinds
Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation. Doris Lessing
envy feelings needs
Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter. Curtis Jackson
envy water grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side
If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher. Debbie Macomber
envy waiting tumbling
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. Amy Hempel
envy rich envious
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
envy malice
ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
envy emulation capacity
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
envy eyes gentlemen great hearts low neither nor outward shall
We are gentlemen that neither in our hearts nor outward eyes envy the great nor shall the low despise. William Shakespeare
envy long funeral
... the introduction of the doctrine of polygamy was the first time in my life that I desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse its situation. Brigham Young
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 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 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 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 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. Agnes Repplier
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.