Envy Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

“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.’”
– Marco Rubio 

“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.”
– Marilyn Monroe 

“I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish – a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.”
– Meghan O’Rourke 

“‘Envy the Night’ was my first stand alone, the first book I’d written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. ‘So Cold the River,’ I knew, was going to be really different, and that’s why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn’t want to damage my career.”
– Michael Koryta 

“Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It’s hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I’m not training.”
– Michelle Kwan 

“I’m still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.”
– Mike Krzyzewski 

“The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.”
– Mitt Romney 

“Envy is human nature.”
– Monica Bellucci

“Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.”
– Oliver Stone 

“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 

“I envy people who drink – at least they know what to blame everything on.”
– Oscar Levant 

“Envy aims very high.”
– Ovid 

“I have never been given to envy – save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.”
– Paul Getty 

“Exploiting people’s emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it’s not change, it’s partisanship. We don’t need partisanship. We don’t need demagoguery, we need solutions.”
– Paul Ryan 

“Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.”
– Petrarch

“Envy’s a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.”
– Philip James Bailey 

“The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.”
– Rabindranath Tagore 

“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.”
– Rachel Bilson 

“I’m not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I’m not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.”
– Rachel Weisz 

“I envy my daughter’s childhood.”
– Rene Russo 

“There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.”
– Richard Brinsley Sheridan 

“I envy the happiness of others… I envy the sense of belonging… I seem always to be remaking myself.”
– Richard Eyre 

“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 

“They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.”
– Sallust 

“O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!”
– Samuel Richardson 

“Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.” 
– Santosh Kalwar

“The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world – where they rely on charity, dry pieces of bread and water, where they are subjected to harsh treatment, when they can be free and be the envy of their colleagues in the afterlife. They are only too eager to sign on the dotted line and join the ranks of the Taliban.”
– Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy 

“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.”
– Sherwood Anderson 

“I think envy motivates a lot of people.”
– Shia LaBeouf 

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