Envy Quotes

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.

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

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

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

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.

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

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

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.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

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.

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

I almost envy people who say whatever they want.

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.

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

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

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.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.