Most Envied Quotes

#1. I took my time and observed Ryder Kingscott - the legend, the most envied, desired, talked about, etc., guy in school - mutating before my eyes into Ryder Kingscott, the ... possible stalker?

Ramona Wray

#2. I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so angry, so ticked of about so many things.

William Bennett

#3. Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. 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

#5. Darcy had walked away to another part of the room. She followed him with her eyes, envied everyone to whom he spoke, had scarcely patience enough to help anybody to coffee; and then was enraged against herself for being so silly!

Jane Austen

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Rowan Williams

#9. 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

#10. I envied Lesley her unshakable optimism. She always looked on the bright side of things. If they Had a bright side.

Kerstin Gier

#11. Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.

Walter Lippmann

#12. She had always envied the wind. So free. Blowing where it listed. Through the hills. Over the lakes. What a tang, what a zip it had! What a magic of adventure!

L.M. Montgomery

#13. envied their certainty about the future.

David Mitchell

#14. She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

Doris Lessing

#15. Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Mark Twain

#16. All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

Samuel Johnson

#17. Any man who has known a love bringing him such happiness--if even for a short time--that its loss steals his very will to live, is a man to be envied.

Justin in CRIMSON RAPTURE

Jennifer Horsman

#18. Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did not function independently of each other, which handicapped her expressions of suspicion and disdain.

Laini Taylor

#19. When she spoke his name, Beloved, he believed she meant it. He spoke of an adolescence I envied. Pampered, praised, educated . . . any child's dream. But we all awake from dreams.

Robin Hobb

#20. A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Criss Jami

#21. Still am I the richest and most to be envied - I, the lonesomest one!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. James didn't think that Izzy seemed slow, exactly. On the contrary, it was almost as if her brain was simply blissfully unencumbered by the sorts of nagging worries that left most people grumpy and irritable. James envied her a little bit.

G. Norman Lippert

#23. Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our land. The friends of freedom are content to be envied, but envy not.

Hans F. Sennholz

#24. A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having "such a representative life". And it's true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people.

Christopher Bram

#25. The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers."

John Adams

#26. I envied the men. I envied the irresponsibility their surroundings and genitals allowed. I envied the artificial affection they bought. But most of all, I envied that flicker of euphoria they got to feel, like a quick sip of whiskey that warmed their chest and eased their pain.

Maggie Young

#27. It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

Publilius Syrus

#28. You can be surrounded by people and still be lonely. You can be the most popular person in school, envied by every girl and wanted by every boy, and still feel completely worthless. The world can be laid at your feet and you can still not know what you want from it.

Hannah Harrington

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

Megan McCafferty

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Arthur Miller

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

Alfred Adler

#34. 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

#35. You have no knowledge of me. You are to be pitied.'
'Envied, more like,' said his undutiful son.

Georgette Heyer

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

Virginia Woolf

#37. 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

#38. 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

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

Ludwig Von Mises

#40. 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

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

Sally Stanford

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

Irving Layton

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

Horatio Nelson

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#48. 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

#49. 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

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

Stendhal

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

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

Joseph Delaney