Envy Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

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.

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.'

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

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

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

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.

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 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.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

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

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

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

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

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.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

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.