I only envy people who are friendlier than I am.
A corpse boasted of being pain and trouble free. No one envied his lot.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.
Claude Lacombe: [to Roy Neary] I envy you.
I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.
Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous. There, at any rate...
I thought of what pride would look like, a jowly old guy in a smoking jacket. Vanity was a tall, beautiful woman with a face like a mask. Envy was a treasure-hoarding dragon, dainty and diabolical. As I sketched in the dragon's face, I gave her eyebr...
Live with a steady superiority over life-don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is, after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. It is enough if you don't fre...
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
No bird ever looked at a plane in envy
There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.
Still am I the richest and most to be envied - I, the lonesomest one!
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
If you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy.
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
