185 quotes found
“To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.”
“No bird ever looked at a plane in envy”
“I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.”
“They envy the distinction I have won; let them, therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.”
“Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirience...”
“The fenced-in dog barks at the one running free.”
“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.”
“Some people suffer from the green-eyed monster called envy.”
“Don't envy those who seems having everything, they don't really have everything. They have what they want and live the life they want but they don't have what they really need.”
“Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.”
“To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.”
“As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a [person].”
“When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.”
“I wanted what women always want: permission. But he'd had that before this book was even written; it was, after all, the first thing I'd envied about him. It was arguably what enabled him to write ...”
“It is difficult to be ambitious without also being envious.”
“What she has is effortlessly remarkable, the kind of gift you only feel the weight of if it's something you don't have but dearly want.”
“It's a curious thing that the mental life seems to flourish with its roots in spite, ineffable and fathomless spite. Always has been so! Look at Socrates, in Plato, and his bunch round him! The she...”
“He has a mouth, lord," Gerbruht said."I envy him," I said."Envy him, lord?""Most of us have to lower our trews to shit.”
“Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken”
“Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.”
