Envy Quotes

Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

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.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

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 is human nature.

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

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.

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