Best 1090 quotes in «envy quotes» category

Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.

Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Men not only don't get what's important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it's the thing they can't have.

Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

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

My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

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

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

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet.

No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

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

Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.

No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

Not praising the deserving prevents envy.

Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.

Now I'm not the type that gets upset, Try to disrespect folks just to earn respect. But learn this fact: whether white or black, I can't be conquered in my style of rap. For jealousy and envy are dumb ones' tools, So Ricky says nothing, he keeps his cool. Revenge is not a mission that the Ruler's on, Just forgiveness required for the wrong that's done.

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

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.

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

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you!

Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

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

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.

Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.

Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.