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Tag Name "Envied" (67)

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No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
Sydney Pollack
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.
Walter Lippmann
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I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love loving alone is as dull as eating alone.
William Wycherley
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Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.
Jessica Mitford
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She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.
Anne Bronte
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The envied are like bureaucrats the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
John Berger
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The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.
Arthur Miller
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The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
Josh Billings
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The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.
Baltasar Gracian
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Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did not function independently of each other, which handicapped her expressions of suspicion and disdain.
Laini Taylor
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I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.
Bob Dylan
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Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
Marie Corelli
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He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.
Charles Finch
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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain
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The Gospel of Judas turns Judas' act of betrayal into an act of obedience. The sacrifice of Jesus' body of flesh in fact becomes saving. And so for that reason, Judas emerges as the champion and he ends up being envied and even cursed and resented by the other disciples.
Craig A. Evans
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If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno Si leggesse in fronte scritto, Quanti mai, che invidia fanno, Ci farebbero pieta!].
Pietro Metastasio
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A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
Criss Jami
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
Pindar
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Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the world deliberately blind, living only inside their heads, in their fantasies, in their memories and worries, oblivious to the present, only aware of the past or future.
Dara Horn
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In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
Rowan Williams
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.
Doris Lessing
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Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.
Samuel Richardson
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I had friends who ran off to become ski instructors or worked in cool bars, and I often envied them, but I know I'd quickly become bored with that kind of life. I always need to push myself.
Douglas Booth
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