Envy Quotes - Page 6

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

The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

The eyes envy the mind.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

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.