Envious Man Quotes

#1. Desire nothing for thyself, seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. Man's future and thy own fate must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for anything.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

Horace

#3. The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type of possession; of sitting at the colonist's table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife. The colonized man is an envious man.

Frantz Fanon

#4. Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

Baron De Montesquieu

#5. The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself

Helmut Schoeck

#6. It is the habit of the envious man to absolve himself of public wrongs with his own personal grievances.

Victor Hugo

#7. The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.

Helmut Schoeck

#8. The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He wasn't covetous, he wasn't envious. But without money he was hardly a man.

Jonathan Franzen

#9. There are three main types of cyberattacks today: attacks on a network's confidentiality, availability, and integrity. Attacks

Alec J. Ross

#10. All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.

Edward Thorndike

#11. The proud man hath no God; the envious
man hath no neighbor; the angry man
hath not himself.

Joseph Hall

#12. The best parent, the best sibling, the best friend and even God are more interested in being with you, than above you,

Sarah Young

#13. Us colored folks is too envious of one 'nother. Dat's how come us don't git no further than us do. Us talks about de white man keepin' us down! Shucks! He don't have tuh. Us keeps our own selves down.

Zora Neale Hurston

#14. Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

John Steinbeck

#15. Mimicry reassures the weak, and the envious fool takes the risk as often as the visionary who mocks the error and leave the man alone.

Paul Theroux

#16. Fear seemed to hover in the air like a blizzard of black snow.

James Dashner

#17. Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

Arthur Keith

#18. When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.

Saadi

#19. Melville has his tics, but he always put his words in the right order. Once you fall under the spell of the writer, you look past those ticks because you are more interested in what the writer says than judging how well he grasped the editorial conventions of his time.

Mary Norris

#20. Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false nails, sixteen pounds of make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker envious, has implants and assorted other surgeries, then complains that she cannot find a 'real' man

Maynard James Keenan

#21. I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.

Vincent Gallo

#22. I feel bad for her - i do. a damn shame, really, that i had to have a mother. it can't be easy having me for a son. nothing can prepare someone for that kind of disappointment.

David Levithan

#23. We've got some Democrats who are actually Tea Partiers right now. We need to build coalitions with them.

Matt Shea

#24. There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly righteous, are brought down low by their envy. A true man will be known by his absence of envy. An evil man will be known by the presence of envy within him.

C. JoyBell C.