Quotes about envy
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 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 intellectual vices
Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations. Bertrand Russell
envy museum
We'll get exhibitions that will be the envy of the museum world.
envy pity
Pity is for living, envy is for dead. Mark Twain
envy tree goats
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be? John Donne
envy doe praise
Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved. John Calvin
envy imagine buyers
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself. John Berger
envy reassurance illusion
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
envy emotion common
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
envy common incessant
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own. Jonathan Swift
envy people deeds
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals. Jonathan Sacks
envy blind
Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est Livy
envy inferiority declaration
Envy is a declaration of inferiority. Napoleon Bonaparte
envy antagonist fortunate
Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate. Epictetus
envy kind natural
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise. Herodotus
envy envied
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
envy envied
It is better to be envied than pitied.
envy secret absence
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
envy people literature
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. Heinrich Heine
envy soul mind
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. Henry Fielding
envy perfection faults
Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection. Johann Kaspar Lavater
envy hatred needs
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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 heroic revenge
No revenge is so heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.
envy people
After a while you have to envy these people because they have community. Johnny Vaughan
envy secret senator switch
Envy: Which senator once had a dimmer switch in their secret hideaway? Brad Meltzer
envy silence crow
If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy. Horace
envy
Envy is not to be conquered but by death.