Top 1200 Envy Me Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false.

It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.

With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia.

...she wasn't reading Deathly Hallows at all. Her book wasn't orange but rose and water and sand, and featured a kid on a broomstick and white unicorn. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. She didn't notice me staring at her. 'Oh, I envy you,' I thought, but was smiling for her. She had just begun.

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

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

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

It was there [Dijon], I now understand, that I started to grow up, to study, to make love, to eat and drink, to be me and not what I was expected to be. It was there that I learned it is blessed to receive, as well as that every human being, no matter how base, is worthy of my respect and even my envy because he knows something that I may never be old or wise or kind or tender enough to know.

You're shagging a woman who can turn into a dragon? Blast you, Charles, I am sick with envy!

I envy people who could just have one drink and not go look for cocaine afterwards.

I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.

I never envy the guys who get attention for partying too much or behaving badly.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

We are the envy of Europe and in a few years time we are going to be one of the top countries in the world.

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

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

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends.

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

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.

Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.

Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

Frontrunners always attract envy, and a desperate campaign to stop them in their tracks.

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

I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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

envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

I have performed my duty to my God, my country, and my family. I have nothing to fear in approaching death. To me it is the mere shadow of God's protecting wing . . . Here I will rest in quiet and peace beyond the reach of calumny's poisoned shaft, the influence of envy and jealous enemies, where treason and traitors or State backsliders and hypocrites in church can have no peace.