Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Halsey

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.

Neale Donald Walsch

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Joe Orton

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

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.

Thomas B. Macaulay

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

Thomas Hobbes

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

William Shenstone

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

Robert Ringer

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

William Hogarth

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

Walter Savage Landor

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

William Hazlitt

Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.

William Hazlitt

Envy is littleness of soul.