Top 1200 Envy Me Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.

I think envy motivates a lot of people.

We are and always will be the party of prosperity, not envy.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world - where they rely on charity, dry pieces of bread and water, where they are subjected to harsh treatment, when they can be free and be the envy of their colleagues in the afterlife. They are only too eager to sign on the dotted line and join the ranks of the Taliban.

What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at.

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

A man shall never be enriched by envy.

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

It is better to arouse envy than pity.

Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

But if anyone were to conduct his life by reason He would find great riches in living a peaceful life And being contented; one is never short of a little But men want always to be powerful and famous So that their fortune rests on a solid foundation And they can spend a placid life in opulence. There isn't a hope of it; to attain great honours You have to struggle along a dangerous way And even when you reach the top there is envy Which can strike you down like lightning into Tartarus. For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level.

Envy awakens at the sound of a distant laugh.

It stirs up envy, fame does.

People can commend the weather without envy.

People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

I don't envy my teachers. I used to preach to them.

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

America's infrastructure was once the envy of the world.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

In my own life, hate has consumed me at times. Or envy. When my TV show was canceled, I didn't think it deserved to be canceled because people liked it. It was canceled for the wrong reasons, you know? I was consumed with hate for about a year.

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

I only envy as basic old sexual jealousy.

Far less envy in America than in France.

I almost envy people who say whatever they want.

Envy does not allow humanity to sleep.

Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.

The envious will die, but envy never.

I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.

What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.

I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.

Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

And okay, fine. If you have to kiss her, you have to kiss her. And believe me, I do not envy you. That's taking one for the team a little far. I mean, I think I'd rather endure the stabbing myself instead of having to kiss her.

Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

With fame, in just proportion, envy grows.

I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored...Very pretty indeed; but I don’t insist upon that. It’s her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me.