Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Flavel

[Providences] often puzzle and entangle our thoughts, but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested. "Until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end" (Ps. 73:17). And not only their end, but his own duty, to be quiet in an afflicted condition and not envy their prosperity.

John Fowles

Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.

John F. Kennedy

One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one- third is rocked by the pangs of poverty, hunger and envy. More energy is released by the awakening of these new nations than by the fission of the atom itself.

Paulo Coelho

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

Pliny the Elder

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

Plutarch

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

Plutarch

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

Plutarch

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow.

Ovid

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

Ovid

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

Ovid

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

Martin Amis

Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.

John Donne

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

Josh Billings

Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.

Livy

Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est

John Dryden

Merit challenges envy.

John Lyly

The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.

Emily Post

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

Elvis Presley

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

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.

Robert Ringer

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

Richard Whately

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.

Viggo Mortensen

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

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.

Susan Cain

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

Samuel Johnson

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

Samuel Johnson

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

Samuel Johnson

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.