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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Michael Fine

I just got a chill. Sometimes I envy people who are hearing a piece of music for the first time. That joy of discovery, it's like your first love.

John Gibson

In many places, we're the envy of the world to have these public lands. I don't think anyone, unless you're a developer, should be in favor of this.

Neale Donald Walsch

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

William Wordsworth

Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

Robert Purvis

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

Rudyard Kipling

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

Jose Ortega y Gasset

To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.

Nick Rhodes

Intelligence can't be insulted.

Portia de Rossi

She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it.

Pierre Corneille

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]

Rachel Caine

Maybe you're not his type." Michael said "Oh, now you're just being insulting.

Latin Proverb

What is done for another is done for oneself

Robert Mugabe

There are things one must do for oneself.

Janet Frame

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

Bruce Lee

To live is to express oneself freely

Edsger Dijkstra

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

D. H. Lawrence

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

Robert Bresson

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.

Socrates

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

Maurice Chevalier

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.