In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
Joseph Epstein
I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.
Julian Fellowes
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Henry Fielding
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise... →
Erich Fromm
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the... →
Henry Louis Gates
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay
I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
J. Paul Getty
Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour... →
Barry Hannah
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Heinrich Heine
I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the... →
Amy Hempel