Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Unger

The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.

James Richardson

Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren't hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love.

Philip Sidney

The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.

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.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

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.

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?

John Donne

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

John Calvin

Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved.

John Berger

The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.

John Berger

The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.

John Berger

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Herodotus

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

Herodotus

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

Herodotus

It is better to be envied than pitied.

Herodotus

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Heinrich Heine

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Henry Fielding

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Joseph Hall

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

John Dryden

Merit challenges envy.

John Lyly

The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

Livy

Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est

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.