Best 1090 quotes in «envy quotes» category

every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future siblings.

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.

Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.

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

Every time you envy someone you use a muscle in your face to disadvantage. If you do it only once or twice, it can be erased. But over a period of years, those muscles will tighten your mouth, narrow your eyes, and help destroy your attractiveness.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

Far less envy in America than in France.

Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.

For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being centred upon the few, the generality were poor and miserable. Honourable pursuits, for which there was no longer leisure, were neglected; the state was filled with sordid business, and with hatred and envy of the rich.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd just like to mace them. I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blindly handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear.

Frank Gehry designs buildings that make other architects half his age (he's 78) gasp with envy. Neotony is what makes him lace up his skates and whirl around the ice rink, while visionary buildings come to life and dance in his head.

Franchement, quand je survole certains pays européens (les éoliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill me with envy.)

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'

God being infinite beauty, the soul united to Christ draws upon himself the admiring and tender gaze of the Angels, who, were they capable of any passion, would be filled with envy at his lot.

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

God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.

God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

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

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.

Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.

Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.

Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money, and they made it in just a few periods. Everyone else returned between mediocre and lousy. When returns happened, envy rippled through institutional money management. The amount invested in venture capital went up 10 times post-1999. That later money was lost very quickly. It will happen again. I don't know anyone who successfully resists this stuff. It becomes a new orthodoxy.

Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.

Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?

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

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Homosexuals love to look good. They're clean, neat. They're fastidious, well mannered and well educated. They like aesthetic things. They like good, firm, tight bodies. Health. They want to attract other guys. What's wrong with that? Why be slobs? You've got to be insane to suggest that because someone looks good, he must be gay. That's envy.

I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.

Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions for the preservation of such a society that we do not countenance envy, not sanction its demands by camouflaging it as social justice, but treat it, in the words of John Stuart Mill, as 'the most anti-social and evil of all passions.'

I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.

I actually envy actors who have a persona: 'This is the way I am. This is the part I play.' And do it over and over and over. To me, that's a lot easier than trying to reinvent yourself every six months.