When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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 put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break 10, 000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.
Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
If envy were proper, two persons would be the most proper objects of it one, a man to whom god hath given riches, and apointed to bestow in charity the other, to whom God hath granted the knowledge of religion, and acteth thereon himself, instructing others.
I don't know. My mom would say it's because they are jealous,
Avoid envy, for envy devours good deeds just as fire devours fuel.
Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
It might look like that but it's not my personal parking space, ... I'm telling you that's not true. Anyone that complains like that is jealous.
Only Love Can Break Your HeartSummer, youre unwelcome in my room,leave me be, overwhelmed by grief. Drunk on whiskey from The Pharaohs Tomb Im weak as a pacifist, Im eaten alive by jealousy, only god knows why. Just like only god knows why Alan said coming out is fab and brilllike falling in love.Summer, be gone Alans gone. Family and friends are gone. Neil Young is right Only love can break your heart.My heart is unmendable. I am forever in my room, heartbroken, and nobody is there, forever spending my days killing time until time kills me.
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
Jealousy, he thought, was as physical as fear the same dryness of the mouth, the thudding heart, the restlessness which destroyed appetite and peace.
Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury,
You may partake of any thing we say:
We speak no treason, man; we say the King
Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen
Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous;
We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot,
A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue;
And that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks.
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave.
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
You guys are re-running stories. This is old stuff. It's like watching Sanford and Son . It's almost comical, basically.... Are you guys jealous, upset, disappointed, what
O Indra, destroy all those lustful people behaving like birds.... angry ones behaving like wolves.... greedy ones behaving like vultures.... enticed ones like owls..... arrogant ones like eagles and the jealous ones behaving like dogs.
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.
Master Brook; but the peaking cornuto her
husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual 'larum of
jealousy, comes me in the instant of our, encounter, after
we had embrac'd, kiss'd, protested, and, as it were, spoke
the prologue of our comedy; and at his heels a rabble of his
companions, thither provoked and instigated by his
distemper, and, forsooth, to search his house for his wife's
love.
Envy aims very high.
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves
I got really jealous. Being in touch with Cameron's feelings, it was kind of hard to watch.
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard be-seems, Who, void of envy, guile, and lust of gain, On virtue still, and natures pleasing themes, Poured from his unpremeditated strain.
Imagination cannot make fools wise but she can make them happy, to the envy of reason, who can only make her friends miserable
Tell me a private school that wont take somebody outside their parish. Jealousy is the greatest form of flattery and thats about it. Maybe this is being paranoid, but were a small town, and what irritates me is if (Mayo and Walker) went to a bigger, private school, wed be seeing headlines about how great this is.
Our penitent most humbly pardon sought;
Said he, if e'er to life again I'm brought,
No jealousy, suspicion's hateful bane,
Shall ever enter my distracted brain.
Envy not greatness for thou makest thereby thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
It really made me feel bad that I didn't get there. That's how good it is, ... And I haven't had those pangs of envy now for a long time.
Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors How did they get away with that one
I just wanted to make a movie about love and jealousy, ... but in an environment that you don't often get to see in movies. The whole appeal was the simplicity of it. The idea was just to not tart it up. These cameras make it easy to go in without any lights, on all real locations.
Keep me free,
From torturing jealousy.
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