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 thos….
I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience..
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause..
I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this beco….
It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last..
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you..
Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem..
Envy is the religion of the mediocre.
Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains..
For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being c….
I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural..
Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the ….
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason..
I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you ….
Homosexuals love to look good. They're clean, neat. They're fastidious, well mannered and well educated. They like aesthetic things. They like good, ….
In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't p….
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune..
Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy..
There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they ….
Right now, make a list of what you admire about yourself- don't stop until you've filled a page. Sit and relish each quality and accomplishment. When….
Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep..