More quotations tagged with “envy”
If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you.
—Mitch Albom in Tuesdays With Morrie
Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon envy and avarice.
—Dorothy L. Sayers
As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves. Even our willingness to look at ourselves critically is often helpful.
—Laurie Helgoe in Introvert Power
His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
—Samuel Johnson
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
—Jess C. Scott in The Devilin Fey