Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip James Bailey

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

Peter Drucker

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

Meghan O'Rourke

I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.

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.

Susan Cain

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

Monica Bellucci

Envy is human nature.

Peter S. Beagle

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

Pythagoras

Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Tavis Smiley

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.

Thurgood Marshall

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

Thucydides

Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.

Regina Brett

Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

Rumi

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

Toni Braxton

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

T. S. Eliot

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

Susan Sontag

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Joseph Epstein

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

Joseph Epstein

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

Brad Meltzer

Envy: Which senator once had a dimmer switch in their secret hideaway?

Michael McDonald

We wanted to plan a celebration that would be the envy of Dubuque.

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.

Richard Whately

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.

Truman Capote

It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow.

Ovid

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

Ovid

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

Ovid

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

Martin Amis

Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.

Pindar

Envy bestrides praise.

Paulo Coelho

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

Pliny the Elder

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.