Envy Quotes - page 4

And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry. (Thomas Browne)
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock. View quote
Francis Beaumont
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. View quote
William Shenstone
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. View quote
George Orwell
I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. View quote
Henry Fielding
Envy the kangaroo. That pouch setup is extraordinary; the baby crawls out of the womb when it is about two inches long, gets into the pouch, and proceeds to mature. I'd have a baby if it would develop in my handbag. View quote
Rita Rudner
Our envy of others devours us most of all. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little. (Lloyd Alexander)
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. View quote
Joe Orton
Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed. View quote
David Hume
Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. View quote
Francis Bacon
Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved. View quote
John Calvin
I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day. View quote
John Muir
For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. View quote
John Berger
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. View quote
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife. View quote
Democritus
I'm a frustrated driver. I would love to be out on the track instead of them. I look at them with envy. (Murray Walker)
Metaphors and similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy. View quote
Giannina Braschi
They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge ... no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command ... But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Someone who thinks well of himself is said to have a healthy self-concept and is envied. Someone who thinks well of his country is called a patriot and is applauded. But someone who thinks well of his species is regarded as hopelessly naïve and is dismissed. View quote
Alfie Kohn
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson