Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doris Lessing

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Curtis Jackson

Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.

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.

Ambrose Bierce

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

Anna Camp

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

We'll get exhibitions that will be the envy of the museum world.

Thomas Browne

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

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.

T. S. Eliot

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

Susan Sontag

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Thurgood Marshall

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

Thucydides

Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.

Susan Cain

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

Regina Brett

Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

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.

Viggo Mortensen

In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

Rumi

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.