Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Ronald Blythe

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

Bill Cowher

It's an opportunity that you want to share with a lot of people and the logistics of doing that can be overwhelming at times with all of the requests. At the same time, you can't overlook what we're going there to do. Obviously, it can be very overwhelming to do in just one week's time. People have done it, I don't envy that.

Rachel Weisz

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

Lucretius

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

Mason Cooley

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

Mason Cooley

People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.

Ovid

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

Ovid

Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

Paul Ryan

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

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.]

Horace

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 is not to be conquered but by death.

Jeremy Collier

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

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.

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.

Honore de Balzac

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

Honore de Balzac

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

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.