Envy Quotes - Page 28

• All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.

  William Law

  Ambition, Pride, Anxiety

  William Law, P. G. Stanwood (1978). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love”, p.153, Paulist Press

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• Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

  John Gay

  Brother, Spurs, Pay

  John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.23

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• Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman's strength and health.

  John Gay

  Pain, Complaining, Use

  John Gay (1822). “The Poems of John Gay ...”, p.163

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• It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

  Francis Bacon

  Holiday, Well Said, Wells

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• Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Affection

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.522

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• People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.

  Henry Miller

  Hate, Inspiration, People

  "Henry Miller: The Last Days" by Barbara Kraft, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 17, 2013.

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• One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

  John Gay

  Fate, Common, Prove

  John Gay (1779). “Fables ... In one volume complete”, p.103

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• O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

  Edward Young

  Comfort, Way, Ruins

  Edward Young (1721). “The Revenge: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's Servants”, p.5

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• With fame, in just proportion, envy grows.

  Edward Young

  Fame, Proportion, Grows

  Edward Young, John Doran (1854). “The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran”, p.32

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• Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.

  Menander

  War, Iron, Clothes

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• A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Doe, Gains

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Guardian: With a Biographical, Historical, and Critical Preface by the Rev. Rob. Lynam”, p.94

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• We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they envy our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow minded, pinch-backed race of man, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. They aught to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices.

  George A. Smith

  Men, Race, Air

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• I have a little theory about that, too. It's clearly envy. It's bringing people down to your size. It's a narcissistic impulse that didn't used to exist, but we've become increasingly narcissistic as a society, and envy is one of those outcomes.

  Drew Pinsky

  People, Narcissistic, Littles

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they have warm peachy hearts, whereas the English have horrible spiteful withered hearts - success in England inspires envy - in America, it inspires hope.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Heart, Ideas, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been friends with the guys in Radiohead for a lot of years, and I watch the way those guys work with incredible envy. Because whatever the slings and arrows of dealing with the record business, at the end of the day, they have total creative autonomy. They don't need a lot to do what they do, and Thom [Yorke] and Jonny [Greenwood] and the guys have their own joint in their hometown.

  Edward Norton

  Years, Arrows, Creative

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• I think when someone blindly projects and it's showing up in the form of envy or hate - and I actually think they're synonymous - that's when I feel the most afraid and disconnected and vulnerable. Like whenever I don't feel safe in my own hands, in terms of my not being tender or merciful with myself, or when we're treating each other that way.

  Alanis Morissette

  Hate, Thinking, Hands

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

  Martin Luther

  Hate, Humble, Giving

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• Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

  Livy

  Flames, Soar

  Livy (1833). “Livy”, p.52

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• If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema and Ahimsa as the cleaning instruments.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pride, Hatred, Quality

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• In the gap between who we wish one day to be
  and who we are at present,
  must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.

  Alain de Botton

  Pain, Anxiety, Wish

  Alain de Botton (2001). “The Consolations of Philosophy”, p.202, Penguin UK

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• We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

  Alain de Botton

  Groups, Close Friends, Unendurable

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• What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them - that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.

  Ann Bridge

  Two, Accepting, Recognise

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• Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rocks, Wind, Littles

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• We like the idea of childhood but are not always crazy about the kids we know. We like it, that is, when we are imagining our ownchildhoods. So part of our apparent appreciation of youth is simply envy.

  C. Sommerville

  Appreciation, Crazy, Kids

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• I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

  Errol Morris

  Writing, Different, Kind

  Source: www.believermag.com

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