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Envy Quotes

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Man Impossible Envy Know Turn Out

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Vittorio De Sica

Envy Moral Most Indignation Cases

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

Hate Finance People Doing You Envy

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pride Envy Sometimes Us Much Use

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

Man Me Looking Rich Guilt Envy

Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.

Education Health Service World Envy

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

People Thought Confident Thrive Envy

I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.

Change Red Envy Red Lipstick Bold

The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!

Harold Feinstein

Music Time New York People Envy New

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Lie Me Envy High Low May

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

Bainbridge Colby

Loyalty Hate Thinking Envy Will Our

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hate Step Envy Hatred Active

When the enemies' land force is once conquered and expelled from the continent, our Marine will rise as if by enchantment and become, within the memory of persons now living, the wonder and envy of the world.

John Paul Jones

Memory World Envy Wonder Now Living

Generally, I'm terrified of shopping. I like the idea of being well-dressed, but I've always struggled to get anything that fits. I envy those that go into old vintage shops.

Stephen Merchant

Shopping Vintage Envy Go Anything

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Roger Tory Peterson

Nature People Birds Fly Free Envy

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

People Think Envy Dumb Said Over

Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.

World Envy Creating Track Valley

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

Live People Envy Find Admire Ideals

A man's tailored jacket is like a compartmentalized storage unit with sleeves. Women eye those pockets with envy while searching for a ticket stub lost in a handbag.

Christina Binkley

Women Man Eye Envy Lost Jacket

I admire but don't envy people who have children and also have big, wonderful perfect houses. Maybe Martha Stewart could do it; to me those two things aren't compatible, but I know our children will grow up with a feeling that home is a place of comfort.

Home Children People Me Grow Envy

I envy the dead.

William Mulholland

All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.

Great Time Wise Envy Burden Aim

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Age Wrinkles Envy Cheeks Thy Draw

Carrying envy makes life more difficult.

Life Envy More Difficult Carrying

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