Quotes about envy
envy emotion common
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. John Berger
envy blind
Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est Livy
envy kind natural
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise. Herodotus
envy envied
It is better to be envied than pitied.
envy secret absence
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
envy people literature
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. Heinrich Heine
envy soul mind
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. Henry Fielding
envy perfection faults
Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection. Johann Kaspar Lavater
envy hatred needs
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
envy challenges merit
Merit challenges envy. John Dryden
envy envious harm
The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well. John Lyly
envy jealousy key none together within
They play well together because there is no jealousy within the relationship, none whatsoever. The key is that there is no envy with the two of them. John Brady
envy people may
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness. Bertrand Russell
envy taxation resentment
Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system. Charlie Munger
envy greed world
It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
envy half bears
No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. William Shakespeare
envy mediocre
Envy is the religion of the mediocre Carlos Ruiz Zafon
envy secret excellence
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. Elizabeth Montagu
envy rich harvest
Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting. Bo Sanchez
envy given lucky
I've been lucky enough to have a lot of opportunities in my own life, so I'm not usually given over to much envy of other people. But for Neil, I make a big exception. John Glenn
envy desire may
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.
envy causes unhappiness
Envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness.
envy justice hypocrisy
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. Benjamin Disraeli
envy people generosity
The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy. Alain de Botton
envy groups close-friends
We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
envy raises censure
Those who raise envy will easily incur censure. Charles Churchill
envy pale turns
With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
envy resentment whim
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
envy long funeral
... 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. Brigham Young
envy feels savour
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish Arthur Schopenhauer
envy fame proportion
With fame, in just proportion, envy grows. Edward Young
envy secret senator switch
Envy: Which senator once had a dimmer switch in their secret hideaway? Brad Meltzer
envy plan
We wanted to plan a celebration that would be the envy of Dubuque. Michael McDonald