Envy Quotes - Page 17

• Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Children, Pride, Men

  Walter Savage Landor (1858). “Dry Sticks, Fagoted”, p.72

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• Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Scare, Virtue, Accusation

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1198, Library of Alexandria

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• But if anyone were to conduct his life by reason He would find great riches in living a peaceful life And being contented; one is never short of a little But men want always to be powerful and famous So that their fortune rests on a solid foundation And they can spend a placid life in opulence. There isn't a hope of it; to attain great honours You have to struggle along a dangerous way And even when you reach the top there is envy Which can strike you down like lightning into Tartarus. For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level.

  Lucretius

  Powerful, Struggle, Men

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.167, Psychology Press

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• Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or "mathematics envy."

  Marvin Minsky

  Believe, Simple, Thinking

  "Music, Mind, and Meaning". Computer Music Journal, Volume 5, Number 3, web.media.mit.edu. 1981.

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• What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, He Man, Graves

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3574, Delphi Classics

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• Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Felicity, Objects

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• I don't think the role of style is different for a woman of any age. Style, to me, is about experimenting with what gives you pleasure, a joyous expression of imagination. I emphasize joyous because too much is written about fashion that takes the pleasure away - clothes that make you look thinner or clothes that make you look younger or, horrors, clothes that make other people envy you or that - double horrors - are "age appropriate".

  Elizabeth Heyert

  Fashion, Thinking, Expression

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.

  Mason Cooley

  People, May, Shows

  "City Aphorisms: Eleventh Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1993.

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• Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

  John Milton

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Foundation

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.103

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• Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.

  Edmund Spenser

  Children, Book, Self

  1579 The Shepherd's Calendar, 'To His Book'.

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• The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. I, on the contrary, maintain that they ought to be praised in their lifetime if they merit it; but jealousy and calumny, roused against their virtue or their talent, labour to degrade them if any one ventures to bear testimony to them. It is unjust criticism that they should fear to hazard, not sincere praise.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Unjust Criticism, Hazards

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• We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like Judas among the disciples, it was inevitable that it should be included. The Apocalypse is the feet of clay to the grand Christian image. And down crashes the image, on the weakness of these very feet. There is Jesus--but there is also John the Divine. There is Christian love--and there is Christian envy. The former would "save" the world--the latter will never be satisfied till it has destroyed the world. They are two sides of the same medal.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Christian, Jesus, Father

  D.H. Lawrence (1974). “Apocalypse”

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• Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.

  Edmund Waller

  Long, Together, Lines

  1645 'Of English Verse'.

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• Donald Trump envies anyone who can do things he can't.

  Garry Kasparov

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Simple, May, Firsts

  "Doing Well and Doing Good: The Challenge to the Christian Capitalist". Book by Richard John Neuhaus, 1992.

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• There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Men, Race

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.16

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• I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.

  May Sarton

  Light, Expression, Color

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.90, Open Road Media

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• For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.

  Helen Rowland

  Kissing, Men, Average

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• Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick

  Abigail Van Buren

  Mother, Father, Dirty

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• We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Hatred, Way, Difficulty

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• Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Pride, Evil

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song VI, 74, 1321.

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• Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Silence, Contradiction, Arise

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• The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Men, Causes

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• God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.

  Emily Dickinson

  Jealous, Play, Bears

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2001, Delphi Classics

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• Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.

  Jim Morrison

  Vanity, Feelings, Desire

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