Top 146 Envied Quotes & Sayings

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

I've never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script.

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

Men like Sunil Dutt should not be mourned, only envied for their greatness.

I'm loved by some, hated by many, envied by most, yet wanted by all. (Josiah)

In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else.

I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

You're isolated as a writer, so I always envied people who could get up early and drive to work and fit into society.

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

I've played in San Diego for nine years and gone against my new team a bunch of times, and I've always envied their success. I've always envied the way they play, the way they go about business.

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

I envied kids who played soccer and football, but that was not my gig.

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.

?He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going, 'Hey!' - because they're scared of you.'

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.

If you are not envied, you are not enviable.

Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.

I've always envied Thomas Jefferson's bed at Monticello. It's in a tiny alcove, bound by walls at the head and foot.

I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

I didn't have stage parents and sometimes I've envied people who did because I felt like, I guess, I'm compulsively worried I'm not accomplishing enough.

I've always envied girls having Ugg boots, so when I found some for men, I had to have them.

Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

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.

There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

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

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.