Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Eric Burdon

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

Evan Esar

The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends.

Evan Esar

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.

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.

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.

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.

John Gay

Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

John Gay

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

John Gay

Envy is a kind of praise.

John Flavel

[Providences] often puzzle and entangle our thoughts, but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested. "Until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end" (Ps. 73:17). And not only their end, but his own duty, to be quiet in an afflicted condition and not envy their prosperity.

John Fowles

Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.

John F. Kennedy

One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one- third is rocked by the pangs of poverty, hunger and envy. More energy is released by the awakening of these new nations than by the fission of the atom itself.

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.

Plutarch

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

Plutarch

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

Plutarch

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

Emily Post

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

Elvis Presley

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?