Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Churchill

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Arthur C. Clarke

They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.

Brigham Young

... the introduction of the doctrine of polygamy was the first time in my life that I desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse its situation.

Arthur Schopenhauer

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

Edward Young

If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.

Edward Young

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

Edward Young

With fame, in just proportion, envy grows.

Elizabeth Montagu

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

Edmund Waller

Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.

Bertrand Russell

Envy is the basis of democracy.

Bertrand Russell

Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.

Bertrand Russell

Envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness.

Benjamin Disraeli

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

Aleksandar Hemon

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

Catherine Hardwicke

I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn't in that medium.

Aeschylus

There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

Aeschylus

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

Ada Leverson

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

William Shenstone

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it

Mark Twain

Pity is for living, envy is for dead.

Anna Camp

You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life.

Conrad Black

The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded by soul-destroying envy, to intimidate all those who might aspire to anything the slightest exceptional.

Alexander McCall Smith

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was.

Alexander Pope

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

Alexander Pope

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

Alexander Pope

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

Alexander Pope

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

Debbie Macomber

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

Doris Lessing

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

Amy Hempel

I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the other day. It comes tumbling out and maybe then they go back and refine. I kind of envy that way of working, but I just have never done it.

Ambrose Bierce

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

Ambrose Bierce

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.