Envy Quotes - Page 30

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.

I missed Breaking Bad and people just go on and on about it until you're blue in the face with envy and you've got to watch it.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with no alloy of envy or suspicion or selfishness or sorrow?

You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.

Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?

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

I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.

The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

Envy bestrides praise.

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

Quebecers are happy in Canada. We are benefiting economically and fiscally from belonging to Canada. We're proud of being Canadian. It's a great country. Everybody on Earth envies our Canadian citizenship.

In Quebec, our goal isn't to reduce daycare service - a program the entire world envies - but to make it viable so tomorrow's families can keep benefiting from it.

The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.

I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f... happy.

They say that love and tears are learned without any master; and I may say that there is no great need of studying at the court to learn envy and revenge.

Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’ at gatherings of amateur astronomers.

The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.