Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Collier

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

Gore Vidal

Envy is the central fact of American life.

Gina Barreca

Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'

Griffin Dunne

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

Christopher Lee

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

Freddie Highmore

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

George Orwell

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

George Carlin

I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.

Frederick Buechner

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

Euripides

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

Euripides

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

Francis Bacon

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

Francis Bacon

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

Jean Rostand

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

Giovanni Boccaccio

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

John Glenn

I've been lucky enough to have a lot of opportunities in my own life, so I'm not usually given over to much envy of other people. But for Neil, I make a big exception.

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.

Jean de la Bruyere

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

Moby

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.

Murray Walker

I'm a frustrated driver. I would love to be out on the track instead of them. I look at them with envy.

Moliere

The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]

Moliere

The envious will die, but envy never.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

Jerry Bridges

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.