Quotes of: Envy Keyword

Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

The Book Thief

I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.

Rachel Bilson

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

P. T. Barnum

Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

Haunted

It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.

I Speak of Ghana

Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it on.

Infinite Jest

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

Recollections on the French Revolution

He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.

Sarah Canary

And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.

The Magus

We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.

The News: A User's Manual

Evil became invisible when it was everywhere. Like air, everyone forgot it was there until it was blowing hard enough to knock off their hat or muss up their hair.

The Least Envied

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

A Stranger in Mayfair

Judgement is so often a thwarted, frustrated expression of envy.

Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Perfect Match

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

The Portable Dorothy Parker

Freedom cannot be labeled nor won nor envied. Only when one doesn't realize what freedom is, is one truly free.

The Tenth Saint

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

We Never Talk about My Brother

Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?

Woman: An Intimate Geography

Hate hates what it mirrors or envies.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

I’m a sound sleeper. Every time I hear a sound I wake up. Sometimes I envy Helen Keller.

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