Top 32 Envied By Many Quotes

#1. Well, I'm sure I hope your health may be good, Louisa; for if your head begins to split as soon as you are married, which was the case with mine, I cannot consider that you are to be envied, though I have no doubt you think you are, as all girls do.

Charles Dickens

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#2. To be envied, admired, is not a feeling. Nor is fame it feeling. There are feelings associated with fame, but few of them are any more enjoyable than the feelings associated with envy of fame.

David Foster Wallace

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#3. The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

Arthur Miller

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#4. Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Alfred Adler

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#5. Feely had the knack of being able to screw one side of her face into a witchlike horror while keeping the other as sweet and demure as any maiden from Tennyson. It was perhaps, the one thing I envied her.

Alan Bradley

Envied By Many Quotes #46319
#6. You have no knowledge of me. You are to be pitied.'
'Envied, more like,' said his undutiful son.

Georgette Heyer

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#7. I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame.

Virginia Woolf

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#8. When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived, the way they dressed. Maybe there is a part of me that is reserved, even in rebellion.

Susan Minot

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#9. I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders.

Jodi Picoult

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#10. The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.

Ludwig Von Mises

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#11. I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page.

Luke Wilson

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#12. We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.

Sally Stanford

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#13. Maybe the supreme self-confidence I envied in Pepe was nothing more than cleverly masked insecurity.

Megan McCafferty

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#14. My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

Horatio Nelson

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#15. There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

Charles Dudley Warner

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#16. All of you, all who are present
consider me worthy of pity, do you
not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I
consider that I am to be envied.

Victor Hugo

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#17. As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.

Abbi Glines

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#18. I'm loved by some, hated by many, envied by most, yet wanted by all. (Josiah)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#19. The postman on his bicycle, she envied him, envied his wheels kissing the cobbles, that he knew one language only, one country only, envied his undivided past, undivided from his future.

Anouk Markovits

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#20. I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going, 'Hey!' - because they're scared of you.'

Martin Freeman

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#21. Prestige! Sir, is it nothing? To be revered by fools, gaped at by children, envied by the rich and scorned by the wise.

Stendhal

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#22. Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

Albert Camus

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#23. He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.

Pierre Corneille

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#24. I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

William Wycherley

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#25. She told me once she envied the women who lived back in the good old days who only had to worry about Indians and mountain lions killing their husbands. Something about those things being beyond a wife's control.

Tawni O'Dell

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#26. For a moment I envied them their religion. They were lucky to have something they could all believe in together.

Joseph Delaney

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#27. My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

Irving Layton

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#28. Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.

Criss Jami

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#29. Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening ...

Jessica Mitford

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#30. I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn't see any way to change things.
Only end them.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#31. In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

Rowan Williams

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#32. I so envied the world around me. Don't get me wrong, I loved my own life too, but that didn't stop me from wishing I could close my eyes and slip into someone else's life. You know, explore the world with different eyes, a different heart.

Marilyn Grey

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