Browsing Topic Best Envied Quotes

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body’s sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. […because they focus on what they don’t have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not – at least, I firmly believed I did not.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I’ve known.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Envy, to which th’ ignoble mind’s a slave, Is emulation in the learn’d or brave.

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.

There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.

To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo of loveliness around every person who possesses it, making their countenances beam with light, and their society desirable because of its excellency. They are loved of God, of holy angels, and of all the good earth, while they are hated, envied, admired, and feared by the wicked.

We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a powerful motive to feel sad. We should have envied her for having located someone without whom she so firmly felt she could not survive, beyond the gate let along in a bare student bedroom in a suburb of Rio. If she had been able to view her situation from a sufficient distance, she might have been able to recognise this as one of the high points in her life.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

Benny and Bjorn, I suppose, already had an idea of which one was going to sing the lead. I mean, they knew perfectly well our ranges and which kind of voice they wanted on a specific song. And sometimes, I envied the choice of Agnetha, I must admit.

Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.

With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people… I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them – a comfortable prison of his own design.You say this as if you envied him.There are worse prisons than words.

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

?He often envied people who hadn’t read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.