Envy Quotes - page 23

My daughter takes pride in showing up with stuff that other kids envy or are freaked out by, so I send her to school with grilled octopus. (Anthony Bourdain)
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.
Rumi
For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.
Helen Rowland
Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.
Tamora Pierce
When I behold the skylark move in perfect joy towards its love the sun, when I behold the skylark, growing drunk with joy, forget the use of wings, so that it topples from the height of heavens, I envy the bird's fate.
Bernart de Ventadorn
So little egoistic he was that none of his friends felt envy of his extraordinary superiority, but rather grovelled before it, so that women were jealous of the power he had over men; but women were many and Kings were one. The men worshipped not so much their friend, as the ideal American they all wanted to be.
Henry Adams
It stirs up envy, fame does.
Marilyn Monroe
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.'
Rand Paul
Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
Barbra Streisand
Ah, Caroline Brine - with your aversion to bohemians and homosexuals, students and foreigners, with your lacerated womb and scullery rat's brain, with your phosphorescent dildos and potted African violets, haunted by the ghost of your aborted baby and contaminated by envy, you freckled, you artificially tanned, you stupefyingly bland and vicious mediocrity - even after all these years, I still detest you.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better, or for worse as his portion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.
Christopher Hitchens
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much to envy in the world.
Edward Young
Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
To confess to freedom, the highest habit; while so many are courting the powerful and look from below to the tyrants slowly crossing through the town, longing in envy to be seen in the crowd and to narrate their parenthood. Better to look on in serenity: the noise of triumph is like a polluted river. Better to decide and to act, at the service of the ready heart and oppose the anonymous world, uniting the individuals ever more in the * "thou.”.
Aldo Capitini
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.
Craig Brown
I envy men whose yards are gay, But never work as hard as they; I also envy men who own More wealth than I have ever known. I'm like a lot of men who yearn For joys that they refuse to earn.You cannot have the joys of work And take the comfort of a shirk. I find the man I envy most Is he who's longest at his post. I could have gold and roses, too, If I would work like those who do.
Edgar Guest
Oh, youth, go forth and do! You, too, to fame may rise; You can be strong and wise. Stand up to life and play the man - You can if you'll but think you can; The great were once as you. You envy them their proud success? 'Twas won with gifts that you possess.
Edgar Guest
In civilized societies today ... clitoris envy, or womb envy, takes subtle forms. Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humble her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements - all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.
Elizabeth Gould Davis
Envy plus rhetoric equals 'social justice'. (Thomas Sowell)
Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.
Thomas Sowell
Patience is the guardian of faith, the preserver of peace, the cherisher of love, the teacher of humility: Patience governs the flesh, strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride; she bridles the tongue, refrains the hand, tramples upon temptations, endures persecutions, consummates martyrdom.
George Horne
A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard becomes Who void of envy, guile and lust of gain, On virtue still and nature's pleasing themes Poured forth his unpremeditated strain.
James Thomson (poet)
Base Envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
James Thomson (poet)