Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

Horace

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

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.

Christopher Lee

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill

Brad Meltzer

Envy: Which senator once had a dimmer switch in their secret hideaway?

John Glenn

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.

Billy Graham

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

Michael McDonald

We wanted to plan a celebration that would be the envy of Dubuque.

Nikita Khrushchev

The living will envy the dead.

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

Rachel Weisz

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

Lucretius

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

Mason Cooley

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

Mason Cooley

People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.

Miguel de Cervantes

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

Miguel de Cervantes

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’ at gatherings of amateur astronomers.

Theodore Roosevelt

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.