Envy Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I almost envy people who say whatever they want.

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

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.

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

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.

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.