Envy Quotes

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

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

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

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

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

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

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.

I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.