Envy Quotes

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.

I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

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

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

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.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

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

Envy aims very high.

There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing 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.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

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.

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

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

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

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.'

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

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

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