Quotes about envy
envy jerusalem sides
Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem. Margaret Halsey
envy soul ulcers
Envy is the ulcer of the soul. Socrates
envy vices creeps
Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent. Ovid
envy feds hard
Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.
envy favor public unless
In many places, we're the envy of the world to have these public lands. I don't think anyone, unless you're a developer, should be in favor of this. John Gibson
envy logistics opportunity overlook people share
It's an opportunity that you want to share with a lot of people and the logistics of doing that can be overwhelming at times with all of the requests. At the same time, you can't overlook what we're going there to do. Obviously, it can be very overwhelming to do in just one week's time. People have done it, I don't envy that. Bill Cowher
envy daggers sometimes
The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy. Friedrich Nietzsche
envy excitement living-my-life
I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid! Eric Burdon
envy hearing joy music people piece
I just got a chill. Sometimes I envy people who are hearing a piece of music for the first time. That joy of discovery, it's like your first love.
envy far judges novel obviously task
I didn't envy the judges their task this year. Obviously the novel is far from dead. John Banville
envy looks exotic
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. Imelda Staunton
envy spirit cold
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit. Hannah More
envy enemy our-love
Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
envy contentment sin
The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God Jerry Bridges
envy facts american-life
Envy is the central fact of American life. Gore Vidal
envy dating guy
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?' Gina Barreca
envy done directors
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. Griffin Dunne
envy doe praise
Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved. John Calvin
envy imagine buyers
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself. John Berger
envy reassurance illusion
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
envy emotion common
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
envy kind natural
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise. Herodotus
envy envied
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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 waste needs
Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. Regina Brett
envy long care
Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself. Joseph Hall
envy doe fame
It stirs up envy, fame does. Marilyn Monroe
envy human-nature humans
Envy is human nature. Monica Bellucci
envy house inward
The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding. Philip Sidney
envy coal hot
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell. Philip James Bailey