Envy Quotes - Page 9

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

Merit challenges envy.

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.

Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple

And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand and tramples upon temptations.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial règime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic; there is, as we have said, little doubt that the American Congress and the French Chambre have a power over their respective nations which would rouse the envy of a Louis XIV or a George III were they alive today.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.