Envies Quotes

#1. Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman's strength and health.

John Gay

#2. Life ups the self-esteem of a low-paid man by giving him things that the high-paid man that he envies cannot buy (intellect, looks, sex appeal, etc.).

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#3. Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.

Carolyn Wells

#4. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Gautama Buddha

#5. One extraordinary thing happened as a result of the fear caused by your people, and that was that old feuds and envies disappeared. Those among us who had been enemies for generations forgot their grudges and joined one another against the invasion.

Graciela Limon

#6. If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Cesare Pavese

#7. In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.

Hesiod

#8. True charity never envies others when they prosper, nor rejoices in the calamities of others when they are in trouble.

J.C. Ryle

#9. The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

Hesiod

#10. Hate hates what it mirrors or envies.

T.F. Hodge

#11. True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#12. There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

Marie Dressler

#13. Or is it that slow paced evil creeps in when it espies and envies happiness, and then takes a deliberate foul delight in spoiling it?

Leslie W.P. Garland

#14. The most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another, that has any of his own.

Ellin Devis

#15. Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.

John Donne

#16. Moon is a superstar to a neon light
Both are in doubt of their lifeless plight
One envies the sun, the other one's scared
But to face the dark they're always prepared

Munia Khan

#17. 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.

Edward Abbey

#18. A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.

Richard Steele

#19. Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.

Gautama Buddha

#20. It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.

Uthman Ibn Affan

#21. You know that if I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

William Faulkner

#22. The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

Ludwig Von Mises

#23. There is no love;
There are only the various envies, all of them sad.

W. H. Auden

#24. Man of simple life envies the man of complex life and man of complex life envies the man of simple life! The solution is simple: Let them taste the lives they envy. And thus the envy will disappear; it will replace with the truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Robert M. Pirsig

#26. A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.

Yeardley Smith

#27. I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

Richard Steele

#28. Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it on.

David Foster Wallace

#29. My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace.

Patricia Highsmith

#30. Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#31. God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.

Jacques Rigaut

#32. "Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Ayn Rand

#33. If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style of life. I think everyone envies it a bit.

Lapo Elkann

#34. Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

Samuel Johnson

#35. In a world that praises the luck (but not the hustle) and envies the dream (but not the chase), be the outlier. Have

Gloria Atanmo

#36. The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

William Hazlitt

#37. Whoever envies you is secretly convinced he is inferior to you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#38. You may envy every one, but no one envies you.

Martial

#39. I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

John Ruskin