Envy Quotes - Page 17

• Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

  Margaret Mead

  Baby, Husband, Children

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

  Plutarch

  Pleasure, Advantage, Malice

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• As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

  Robert Breault

  Funny, Humorous, Pride

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• The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ill Will, World, Morality

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.80, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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, Envious

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

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• There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

  Samuel Johnson

  Toil, Want, Mark

  'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 157

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• Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

  Ben Jonson

  Two, Honor, Bears

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.386

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• Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

  Euripides

  Want, Poverty, Menace

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.149, University of Chicago Press

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• Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Morality, Speak

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.74

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• Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

  Rumi

  Fall, Perfection, Sorrow

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• Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Order, Honor, Insult

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• A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Revenge, Mistake, Men

  Mary Baker Eddy (1990). “Ciencia y salud: con clave de las escrituras”, Writings of Mary Baker Eddy

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• Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.

  Karen Horney

  Christian, Honesty, Children

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• I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

  Jay McInerney

  Writing, Discovery, Process

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• Envy bestrides praise.

  Pindar

  Praise

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed... . Today art has to look again at these unchanging qualities, because society is no longer unchanging. It is up to art today to show us what has become of these unchanging qualities in a world which is moving and changing.

  Tawfiq al-Hakim

  Art, Moving, Past

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• My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Brother, Cat

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

  Horace

  Mean, Golden, Limits

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• The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

  Lucretius

  Levels, Thunderbolts, Summit

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

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• In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Prosperity

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.48, University of Chicago Press

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• Envy ... 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

  Intellectual, Vices, Moral

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.50, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

  Willard Gaylin

  Jealousy, Struggle, Survival

  Willard Gaylin (1992). “The male ego”, Viking Pr

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• What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Success, Heart, Desire

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.506, Open Road Media

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• I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.

  Nelly

  Eye, Reality, Greed

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• You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.

  Ann Brashares

  Moving, Heart, Blood

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