Envy Quotes - Page 17

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

[Indira Gandhi] looked tired that day, and all of a sudden I exclaimed, 'Deep down I don't envy you, and I shouldn't like to be in your place.' And she said, 'The problem is not in the problems I have, it's in the idiots around me. Democracy, you know...' I now wonder what she meant by that unfinished phrase.

The living will envy the dead.

I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.

Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.

The envious will die, but envy never.

The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.

Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are.

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

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

Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all... be happy just the way you are.

It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.

Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.

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

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they staked their rest, their health, their honour and their conscience to acquire it, the price is too high, and there is nothing to be gained by such a bargain.

I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing itself is the process of discovery. I can't see all that far ahead.

God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.

Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.

Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'