Envy Quotes And Sayings

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“At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy – but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.”
– Imelda Staunton 

“Class envy is dangerous.”
– Jack Abramoff 

“Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.”
– Jacopo Sannazaro 

“I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don’t think that way. I still don’t have a ‘bliss’ to follow. For people like me – I suspect that’s most people – holding out for a ‘dream’ or a ‘passion’ is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That’s hard enough… but it’s enough.”
– Jane Pauley

“Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.”
– Jean Vanier 

“There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful – if least fair – is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That’s a whole different kettle of envy.”
– Jeffrey Kluger 

“I envy children who know that they’re going to become doctors, know they’re going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that’s what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.”
– Jeremy Irons 

“The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.”
– Jerry Costello 

“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.” 
– Jess C. Scott

“There is nothing more important to our Nation’s future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.”
– Jim Jeffords 

“The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.”
– Jim Rohn 

“Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn’t yours. But grief comes from losing something you’ve already had.” 
– Jodi Picault

“I’d the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.”
– Joe Orton 

“Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

“Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.”
– John Berger 

“Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.”
– John Gay 

“Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.”
– Jonathan Sacks 

“Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.”
– Joseph Epstein 

“I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.”
– Joseph Epstein 

“In recompense, envy may be the subtlest – perhaps I should say the most insidious – of the seven deadly sins.”
– Joseph Epstein 

“Envy is never general, but always very particular – at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.”
– Joseph Epstein 

“Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.”
– Joseph Hall 

“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
– Josh Billings 

“When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.”
– Julius Erving 

“We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.”
– Karl A. Menninger 

“I almost envy people who say whatever they want.”
– Kate Bosworth 

“Sometimes I envy people who can be only half crazy, with one foot in the passion and one foot in the real world. But that’s not me. I dive into the total crazy experience. That’s the only way to travel.”
– Kiran Ahluwalia 

“Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.”
– Livy 

“With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.”
– Lope de Vega 

“I don’t envy men and I certainly wouldn’t like to become one now.”
– Louise Brown 

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