Envy Quotes

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

Envy aims very high.

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.

I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'

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

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

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

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.