Top 1200 Envy Me Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Some people suffer from the green-eyed monster called envy.

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.

Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

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

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

The truth is that we should live with less envy and more cordiality and empathy.

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood on the sidewalk, a nothing, a gatherer of dust. People hurried past me. and everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them.

I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.

It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.

We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in any past era. A lot of what I see now reminds me of Sodomand Gomorrah. You get activity feeding on itself, envy and imitation. It has happened in the past that there came bad consequences.

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Mum and I have always been close. Her adoptive parents died when she was 18, and she doesn't have any other kids, so I'm her only family. She lives life to the full, and I envy her vitality. She has pink hair and is a younger spirit than me.

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.

I don't envy people with long hair. So, I'm glad mine is gone.

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.

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

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

This getting old is something. I think I envy my dog, because my dog is sixteen, and she's limping, and she's still living, but she doesn't look at me like she knows. She's not thinking what I'm thinking. It's a cruel trick that we all know the ending.

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

Capitalism is the system that has enabled greatness and made America the envy of the world.

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.

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

He grinned. “I was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day,” he said. “Greed,envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry…” “I’m pretty sure irony isn’t a deadly sin.” “I’m pretty sure it is.” “Lust,” she said. “Lust is a deadly sin.” “And spanking.” “I think that falls under lust.” “I think it should have its own category,” said Jace. “Greed, envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry, lust, and spanking.

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

I think Julian Casablancas and Amy Winehouse are two contemporaries I envy.

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

I envy people that have separate lives - that their job is one thing, their personal life is another. I've never been able to have that going on for me. I always try and keep some distance. I mean you can never give everything, so there is some distance, but it's pretty raw on some levels.

Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.

I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.

Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.

Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.

We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy.

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy.