Secret Envy Quotes

#1. It is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

Elizabeth Montagu

#2. Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.

William Faulkner

#3. The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#4. I ain't Mary, so ain't a damn thing Poppin'.

Xzibit

#5. For a selfie, it's not about the pose, it's about you. There's a reason why you look great in the picture or you look great in real life, because someone has caught the essence of who you are, and a pose is not you.

Nigel Barker

#6. I couldn't believe Sam actually got me a present because i honestly thought the "I love you" was it.

Stephen Chbosky

#7. I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity ... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

Paul McCartney

#8. When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand.

William Shakespeare

#9. After making love I said to my girl, "Was it good for you too?" And she said, "I don't think this was good for anybody."

Garry Shandling

#10. Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Gautama Buddha

#11. He thinks I might leave if I know him. He thinks that I might leave if he's himself. Oh, this man is so complicated.

E.L. James

#12. Government should protect people and regulate corporations, not protect corporations and regulate people.

Anthony Sloan

#13. You won't tell?"
"I'll add it to the box under my bed labeled 'The Secret Confession of the Immortal Pia'. Good Lord, girl, don't look so mortified. There's not actually a box.

Jessica Khoury

#14. A camera winks at me from high in the bleachers like we're sharing a secret. Fans in the home section of the Fair Grove High gym smile in envy as I hurry toward the bench, wishing some winking camera had ever, in their entire lives, shared a secret with them.

Holly Schindler

#15. Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.

Thomas Brooks

#16. The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Herodotus

#17. Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

Peter S. Beagle

#18. If you have found the way of sacrifice, the way that leads to peace; if you have joined with loving comrades to bring deliverance to them that weep and mourn in secret; then see to it that your soul be free from envy and passion and your heart as an altar where the sacred fire burns eternally.

Ethel Lilian Voynich