Quotes about envy
envy soul disorder
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to. Plutarch
envy matter ink
When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
envy pleasure advantage
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
envy dumb debt
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb. Thomas Browne
envy justice social
Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.". Thomas Sowell
envy community vision
Whether as a radical student, a community organizer or a far left politician, Barack Obama's ideology has been based on a vision of the Haves versus the Have Nots. . .Obama's ideology is an ideology of envy, resentment, and payback.
envy justice political
Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.
envy quiet incredibles
Quiet and incredible. I really envy that. Sarah Dessen
envy hopeful
Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned Roger Waters
envy easy clergymen
I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life. Samuel Johnson
envy desire
All envy is proportionate to desire.
envy worry feelings
When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others Robert Greene
envy enemy loyal
Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
envy want toil
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
envy humanity would-be
All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.
envy causes misery
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.
envy judging world
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession. William Hogarth
envy rich doing-good
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! Samuel Richardson
envy thank-god world
Do I envy Madonna's body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you're fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime's work in the way you look, then flash it to the world! Salma Hayek
envy lust selfishness
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature. William Graham Sumner
envy common praise
The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate. Washington Allston
envy sin despise
More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning. Thomas B. Macaulay
envy competition ancient
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. Thomas Hobbes
envy way omar
In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades. Viggo Mortensen
envy silence crow
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
Envy is not to be conquered but by death.
envy despair arms
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair. Jeremy Collier
envy gossip people
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be. Jean Rostand
envy degrees resentment
In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment. Christopher Lee
envy hatred enemy
The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends. Evan Esar
envy world watches
When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.
envy world poverty
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy. Giovanni Boccaccio
envy facts american-life
Envy is the central fact of American life. Gore Vidal