Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Gore Vidal

Envy is the central fact of American life.

Gina Barreca

Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'

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.

Christopher Lee

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

Freddie Highmore

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

Neale Donald Walsch

Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.

Joe Orton

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Louise Bourgeois

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

Epictetus

Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

Jonathan Swift

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Jonathan Sacks

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

Henry Fuseli

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

Henry Hazlitt

There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy.

Mahatma Gandhi

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

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.

Socrates

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

Nikita Khrushchev

The living will envy the dead.

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

Miguel de Cervantes

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

Miguel de Cervantes

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’ at gatherings of amateur astronomers.

Friedrich August von Hayek

If the resources of different nations are treated as exclusive properties of these nations as wholes, if international economic relations, instead of being relations between individuals, become increasingly relations between whole nations organized as trading bodies, they inevitably become the source of friction and envy between whole nations.

Louis MacNeice

And I envy the intransigence of my own Countrymen who shoot to kill and never See the victim's face become their own Or find his motive sabotage their motives.

Luis Suarez

I'm not envious of Leo [Messi]or Ney [Neymar]. Why would I be? If there is envy in the dressing room, you know it's only going to affect results.

Plautus

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

Lauryn Hill

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got