Envious Quotes - Page 7

• There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

  William Hazlitt

  Stupid, Selfish, Mean

  "Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt, 1821-1822.

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• I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me.

  Liza Campbell

  Beautiful, Character, Ivy

  Source: newwest.net

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• I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written.

  Sandra Bullock

  Saws, Males, Roles

  "Sandra Bullock and Alfonso Cuarón Talk GRAVITY, Conveying the Physics of Space, Training for the Film, Seeing It for the First Time and DVD Extras". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 30, 2013.

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• A lot of the time, the British press make me ashamed and embarrassed to be British. They give others the impression that the British are selfish, envious and bitter people, which is simply not true in my opinion. I think that British people in general are really nice and friendly.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Nice, Selfish, Thinking

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• Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I

  Alfred Kreymborg

  Christian, Satan, Hell

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• The silence of the envious is too noisy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Silence, Noisy

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Envy

  T.S. Eliot (2013). “The Elder Statesman”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Art, Men, Literature

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• ‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Ungrateful, Arrogant

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.24, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• I wouldn't wear turtlenecks. That I'm not envious of. But who knows? I might sneak out a few things and hope and pray that no one says, 'Hey, didn't you wear that when you were playing an enormous geek on TV?'

  Simon Helberg

  Tvs, Hey, Might

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The reason why we often get poor advice is that it's hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn't envious in any way, and at no level thinks he knows what's best for you.

  David J. Lieberman

  Heart, Thinking, Advice

  Dr. David J. Lieberman, Ph.D. (2010). “Get Anyone to Do Anything: Never Feel Powerless Again--With Psychological Secrets to Control and Influence Every Situation”, p.155, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.

  Desmond Tutu

  Insecurity, Different, Needs

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.77, Random House

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• I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Imitation

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• The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Live Life, Mean, Years

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• It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become.

  Rolf Dobelli

  Okay, Persons, Aspire

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• 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

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.5, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• This movement among the Jews is not new... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing... It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century.

  Winston Churchill

  Real, World Government, Civilization

  "Bolshevism versus Zionism; a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people". Winston Churchill, Illustrated Daily Herald, February 8, 1920.

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• People ask if I can get it up in the morning. I tell them are you kidding I'm envious of a stiff wind.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Morning, Wind, People

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• I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

  Michael Caine

  Knowing, People, Hell

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• The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman coal-heaver is said to have remarked to a richly dressed lady: 'Yes, madam, everything's going to be equal now; I shall go in silks and you'll carry coal.'

  Henry Hazlitt

  Revenge, Coal, Revolution

  Henry Hazlitt (1996). “The Conquest of Poverty”

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• Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.

  David Byrne

  Guitar, Names, Songwriting

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• And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  War, World, Our Society

  Second Public Talk at Ojai, May 21, 1944.

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• Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,
  Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
  Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods
  More free from peril than the envious court?

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Brother, Woods

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 2

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• When ever the light of civilization faces upon you with a blighting power...go to the wilderness...Dull business routine, the fierce passions of the marketplace, the perils of envious cities became but a memory...The wilderness will take hold of you. It will give you good red blood; it will turn you from a weakling into a man...You will soon behold all with a peaceful soul.

  Estwick Evans

  Memories, Passion, Men

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• I guess I was always envious of people who got to move to New York for college because they got to see the city that I, perhaps, was pretty jaded by with new eyes and discover for themselves that Andy Warhol was dead.

  Lola Kirke

  New York, Moving, Eye

  Source: www.avclub.com

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