Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Dessen

Quiet and incredible. I really envy that.

Roger Waters

Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

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.

Jonathan Swift

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

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

Henry Adams

Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.

Ellen DeGeneres

Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex.

Peter Matthiessen

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotation confesses inferiority.

Carl Jung

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

Elbert Hubbard

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Alvin Ailey

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

Alexander Crummell

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

Alfred Adler

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.