Envy Quotes - Page 21

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.

Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the measure of happiness abated. It laments over prosperity, and sickens at the sight of health. It oftentimes wants spirit as well as good nature.

We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.

Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.

Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.

There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive.

People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.

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.

Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.

The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.

Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.