Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Honore de Balzac

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

Honore de Balzac

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

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.]

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Jerry Bridges

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

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

Catherine Hardwicke

I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn't in that medium.

Gregory Coupet

We need to judge our level, to learn. It will be a fine match. We have nothing to envy them ... except for their history. It will be 50-50.

Aeschylus

There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

Aeschylus

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

Ada Leverson

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.