Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Burdon

I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!

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.

No revenge is so heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.

Johnny Vaughan

After a while you have to envy these people because they have community.

Moby

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

Jean de la Bruyere

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

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

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

Horace

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill

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!

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.

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.

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.