Envied Quotes
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There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.
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Americarather, the United Statesseems to me to be the Jewamong the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm- hearted, overfriendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travellers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile.
Edna Ferber— 1939 A Peculiar Treasure, ch.1.
For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
thomas gray— St. 6. (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750))
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— 1675 The CountryWife, act 3, sc.2.
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
— p. 178, first American edition (1970)
For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb upon his knees the envied kiss to share.
thomas gray— 1751Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.21-4.
Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.
conrad black— In: Clark, Andrew "At some level, he's still asking the same question as he was when he was seven or eight - who am I?" The Guardian, March 16, 2007
— At the time of his fraud trial in 2007, Black was aware of the disdain much of the public held towards him because of his wealth.
Someone who thinks well of himself is said to have a healthy self-concept and is envied. Someone who thinks well of his country is called a patriot and is applauded. But someone who thinks well of his species is regarded as hopelessly naïve and is dismissed.
alfie kohn— Alfie Kohn, The Brighter Side of Human Nature: Altruism and Empathy in Everyday Life, 1990.
Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.
william james— Lectures VI and VII, "The Sick Soul"
That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.
samuel johnson— A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), Inch Kenneth.
I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
theodore roosevelt— Des Moines, IA, November 4, 1910
Someone who thinks well of himself is said to have a healthy self-concept and is envied. Someone who thinks well of his country is called a patriot and is applauded. But someone who thinks well of his species is regarded as hopelessly naïve and is dismissed.
alfie kohn— Alfie Kohn, The Brighter Side of Human Nature: Altruism and Empathy in Everyday Life, 1990.
It is better to be envied than pitied.
— Variant: How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
— Herodotus, The Histories, Book 3, Chapter 52; also in Thalia.
On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white, round, polish'd pebbles spread.
tobias smollett— Tobias Smollett, Ode to Leven Water, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 437.
It is better to be envied than pitied .
— Book 3, Ch. 52
— Variant: How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
Someone who thinks well of himself is said to have a healthy self-concept and is envied. Someone who thinks well of his country is called a patriot and is applauded. But someone who thinks well of his species is regarded as hopelessly naïve and is dismissed.
alfie kohn— The Brighter Side of Human Nature: Altruism and Empathy in Everyday Life, 1990.
It is never silent, it drowns out all other voices, and it suffers no rebuke, for is it not the voice of America? [...] It has taught us how to live, what to be afraid of, how to be beautiful, how to be loved, how to be envied, how to be successful. [...] Is it any wonder that the American population tends increasingly to speak, think, feel in terms of this jabberwocky? That the stimuli of art, science, religion are progressively expelled to the periphery of American life to become marginal values, cultivated by marginal people on marginal time?
— James Rorty, Our Master's Voice: Advertising (New York: John Day, 1934); pages 32-33, 70-72, 270.
