Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Envy is the religion of the mediocre

Charlotte Lennox

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

Charlie Munger

Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system.

Charlie Munger

It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.

William Shakespeare

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

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.

Bertrand Russell

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.

Agnes Repplier

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

John Gibson

In many places, we're the envy of the world to have these public lands. I don't think anyone, unless you're a developer, should be in favor of this.

Ronald Blythe

No, there's not a lot to envy about the old days. But something has been lost.

John Brady

They play well together because there is no jealousy within the relationship, none whatsoever. The key is that there is no envy with the two of them.

I just got a chill. Sometimes I envy people who are hearing a piece of music for the first time. That joy of discovery, it's like your first love.

John Banville

I didn't envy the judges their task this year. Obviously the novel is far from dead.

Imelda Staunton

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.

Hannah More

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’ at gatherings of amateur astronomers.

Socrates

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

Theodore Roosevelt

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

Margaret Halsey

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.

Henry Fuseli

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

Henry Hazlitt

There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy.

Plautus

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

Lauryn Hill

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

Lisa Unger

The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.

James Richardson

Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren't hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love.

Friedrich August von Hayek

If the resources of different nations are treated as exclusive properties of these nations as wholes, if international economic relations, instead of being relations between individuals, become increasingly relations between whole nations organized as trading bodies, they inevitably become the source of friction and envy between whole nations.

Louis MacNeice

And I envy the intransigence of my own Countrymen who shoot to kill and never See the victim's face become their own Or find his motive sabotage their motives.

Nikita Khrushchev

The living will envy the dead.

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

Philip Sidney

The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.