Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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'.

Thomas Browne

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 Sowell

Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".

Thomas Sowell

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.

Thomas Sowell

Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.

Sarah Dessen

Quiet and incredible. I really envy that.

Roger Waters

Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

Samuel Johnson

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

All envy is proportionate to desire.

Robert Greene

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

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.

Samuel Johnson

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

Samuel Johnson

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

Samuel Johnson

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.

William Hogarth

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

Samuel Richardson

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Salma Hayek

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!

William Graham Sumner

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

Washington Allston

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

Thomas B. Macaulay

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.