Envied Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Hate, Land, Envy

  4 Copy quote

• Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they’ll make a dam. Every time something moves in nature, they want to stop it.

  Mark Gonzales

  Moving, People, Water

  61 Copy quote

• To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

  Pindar

  Fate

  Pindar, Anacreon, Sappho, Musaeus (Grammaticus.) (1822). “The Odes of Pindar”, p.138

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

  Samuel Richardson

  Happiness, Blessing, Years

  4 Copy quote

• The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who envied his success, and the obstinate sinners, who were offended by his reproofs. When Chrysostom thundered from the pulpit of St. Sophia against the degeneracy of the Christians, his shafts were spent among the crowd, without wounding or even marking the character of any individual.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Character, Past

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.502

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Reality, Thinking, Ignorant

  129 Copy quote

• 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

  Children, Knowing, Interesting

  Jessica Mitford (1960). “Hons and Rebels”, Isis Large Print Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.

  Conrad Black

  Biblical, Wealthy, Has Beens

  "'At Some Level, He's Still Asking the Same Question as He Was When He Was Seven or Eight - Who Am I?'". www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Rowan Williams

  Spiritual, Age, Culture

  Rowan Williams (2012). “Faith in the Public Square”, p.243, Bloomsbury Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Meals, Want, Might

  Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Beau Riffenburgh (2007). “The Heart of the Antarctic and South”, p.236, Wordsworth Editions

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.

  Anna Godbersen

  Envy, Pleasure, Scales

  Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.37, Harper Collins

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So must the desire to revere and envy others we imagine to be better, more accepted, and more popular than we are. The only problem is that the most necessary qualities required to be a celebrity -- self-absorption, egomania, shamelessness -- are the least attractive in a friend.

  Tonya Hurley

  Stars, Dna, Self

  9 Copy quote

• Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.

  Bertrand Russell

  Envy, Desire, May

  "The Conquest of Happiness".

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  California, Cold, Wasps

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

  David Benioff

  Sleep, Insomnia, Skulls

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin

  51 Copy quote

  Show source

• She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly voices that enchanted her. Now she saw herself as one of those amoureuses whom she had so envied: she was becoming, in reality, one of that gallery of fictional figures; the long dream of her youth was coming true.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dream, Memories, Reality

  Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Pain, Nice, Believe

  7 Copy quote

• Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

  Albert Camus

  Family First, Poverty, Firsts

  28 Copy quote

• When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.

  Patch Adams

  Beautiful, Girl, Looks

  "Patch Adams". www.imdb.com. 1998.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the world deliberately blind, living only inside their heads, in their fantasies, in their memories and worries, oblivious to the present, only aware of the past or future.

  Dara Horn

  Children, Memories, Past

  Dara Horn (2015). “The World to Come”, p.280, Penguin UK

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

  John Adams

  Education, Character, Mean

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.219, Penguin

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

  Shan Sa

  Revenge, Secret, Untimely Death

  5 Copy quote

• To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo of loveliness around every person who possesses it, making their countenances beam with light, and their society desirable because of its excellency. They are loved of God, of holy angels, and of all the good earth, while they are hated, envied, admired, and feared by the wicked.

  Brigham Young

  Integrity, Angel, Light

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.240

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our envy of others devours us most of all.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Inspirational, Gossip, Envy

  15 Copy quote

• But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Eye, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [48]

  23 Copy quote

  Show source