Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was the envy of our neighborhood touch football gang.

Tom Stoppard

I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.

George Will

Greed is envy with its sleeves rolled up.

Christopher Lee

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

Evan Esar

The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends.

Evan Esar

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.

Euripides

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

Euripides

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

Francis Bacon

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

Francis Bacon

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

George Orwell

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

George Carlin

I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.

Frederick Buechner

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

Eric Burdon

I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!

Hannah More

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

John Banville

I didn't envy the judges their task this year. Obviously the novel is far from dead.

Imelda Staunton

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.

William Shenstone

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

Carrie Fisher

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

Bertrand Russell

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

Sathya Baba

We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy.

Jean de la Bruyere

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

Freddie Highmore

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

Horace

If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

Horace

Envy is not to be conquered but by death.

Jeremy Collier

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

Jean Rostand

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

Giovanni Boccaccio

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

Gore Vidal

Envy is the central fact of American life.

Gina Barreca

Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'

Griffin Dunne

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.