Best 1090 quotes in «envy quotes» category

Do not neglect to bring your revolver, Russell. It may be needed, and it does us no good in your drawer with that disgusting cheese." "My lovely Stilton; it's almost ripe, too. I do hope Mr. Thomas enjoys it." "Any riper and it will eat through the woodwork and drop into the room below." "You envy me my educated tastes." "That I will not honour with a response. Get out the door, Russell.

Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.

Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.

Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all... be happy just the way you are.

Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

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

Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.[or you will create disappointment and envy, as every other person has something, small or large, better than you. Remember at these times what you have rather than what you don't and be grateful]

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.

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

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

Envy grew like a cancer, deep and invasive.

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

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

Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

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

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

Envy is a deadly sin!

Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

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

Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.

Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.

Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.

Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through pride, sinned also through envy, envying our glory, our happiness. Why do we envy the happiness and the goods of others? Because we are proud; we should like to be the sole possessors of talents, riches, of the esteem and love of all the world! We hate our equals, because they are our equals; our inferiors, from the fear that they may equal us; our superiors, because they are above us.

Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.