Envy Quotes - Page 27

• Men not only don't get what's important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it's the thing they can't have.

  Joss Whedon

  Men, Important, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I had achieved so much success in my career and then had this spectacular fall from grace that left me unemployed and living in a town, Los Angeles, that is built on envy. Once you fall, people don't really root for you to come back again. I'd go to restaurants where I always had the best table and half the time they wouldn't even let me pay. And then when I stopped making movies, the same places wouldn't even give me a lousy table, never mind the best one!

  Mickey Rourke

  Fall, Careers, Roots

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• Homosexuals love to look good. They're clean, neat. They're fastidious, well mannered and well educated. They like aesthetic things. They like good, firm, tight bodies. Health. They want to attract other guys. What's wrong with that? Why be slobs? You've got to be insane to suggest that because someone looks good, he must be gay. That's envy.

  Jack LaLanne

  Gay, Guy, Insane

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• There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Conflict, Rich

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.61, Rajpal & Sons

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• A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Occupation, Violence, Exploitation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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• I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Criticize, Meanness, Wells

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

  Jack Nicholson

  Believe, People, Incapable

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual.

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni

  Team, Games, Giving

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• Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour, which is the root of envy; the desire to conquer and be the deciding factor; pride in the glory of power; the urge to adorn oneself and to be liked; the craving for praise; concern and anxiety for physical well-being. All these are of the world; they combine deceitfully to hold us in heavy bonds.

  Tito Colliander

  Pride, Roots, Anxiety

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.30, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• A lot of people don't understand how a lot of money is being made. There's a combination of fear related to that, envy, distrust that gets filtered into that.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  People, Made, Combination

  ""Life Is Unfair": Talking Inequality With The Hedge Fund Industry's Biggest Cheerleader". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 5, 2015.

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• Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward the good perceived in other people. He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride.

  Robert D. Hare

  Eye, Pride, Self

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• Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Humility, Pride

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• Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Men, Expectations

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

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• Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Time, Retirement, Infidelity

  Jeremy Taylor (1847). “The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living”, p.127

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• The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.

  Paul Johnson

  Fear, Evil, Political

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• If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.

  Edward Young

  World, Littles, Enjoy

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• I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

  Richard Steele

  Character, Thinking, Flattery

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• Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, People, Spirit

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• For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Men, Evil

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• If someone is leaving you behind, and you are becoming jealous and embittered, keep praying that he may have success in the very matter where he is awakening your envy; and whether he is helped or not, one thing is sure, that your own soul will be cleansed and ennobled.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Jealous

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• I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

  John Adams

  Jealousy, Ambition, Desire

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.593

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• Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Self, Compare

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.457

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• New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle; Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.

  Christopher Morley

  New York, Home, Office Work

  Christopher Morley (2015). “Parnassus On Wheels”, p.38, Booklassic

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• Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

  John Gay

  Spurs, Pay

  'Fables' (1727) 'The Elephant and the Bookseller' l. 74

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• He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

  Francis Bacon

  Cases

  Francis Bacon (1866). “The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh”, p.22

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