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He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.
— Pierre Corneille
It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]
— Publilius Syrus
I always envied my friends who had older siblings who could guide them through the teenage wasteland.
— Rob Sheffield
How could she have been so ungrateful? She envied the French singer who regretted nothing. She regretted all.
— Lori Lansens
I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
— Adolph Rupp
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
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
No one hated these ghost of mine, no one envied them, no one pestered them. Nor did anyone love them with the only love that matters.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
— Emile M. Cioran
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
— Arthur Chapman
The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.
— Arthur Miller
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
— Charles Caleb Colton
He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.
— Karen Joy Fowler
All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.
— Samuel Johnson
It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
— Kenneth Williams
For a moment I envied them their religion. They were lucky to have something they could all believe in together.
— Joseph Delaney
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
When you make the decision to be amazing, you will find that you are either admired, envied or hated.
— Steven Aitchison
It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I'd die, I turned aside to vomit, I envied them.
— Samuel Beckett
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
— Mark Twain
What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
— Abraham Cowley
The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.
— Baltasar Gracian
You have no knowledge of me. You are to be pitied.''Envied, more like,' said his undutiful son. — Georgette Heyer
She envied him. She envied him his faith there would always be a place, a home, a job, someone else for him. She envied him that attitude.
— Patricia Highsmith
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
— Alfred Adler
Perhaps she would become one of those women, pitied or envied, who chose not to have children.
— Ian McEwan
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
— Rowan Williams
Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.
— Conrad Black
I envied my uncritical, unthinking sisters.
— David Mitchell
If you are not envied, you are not enviable.
— Aeschylus
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
— Ernest Shackleton
I've always envied girls having Ugg boots, so when I found some for men, I had to have them.
— Marc Warren
There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.
— Anna Godbersen
The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
— Baltasar Gracian
Maybe the supreme self-confidence I envied in Pepe was nothing more than cleverly masked insecurity.
— Megan McCafferty
envied their certainty about the future.
— David Mitchell
Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
— Marie Corelli
It is better to be envied than pitied.
— Herodotus
The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
— Josh Billings
I envied Lesley her unshakable optimism. She always looked on the bright side of things. If they Had a bright side.
— Kerstin Gier
I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame.
— Virginia Woolf
She seemed able to go to sleep whenever she wanted to, a skill I envied and did not have.
— Neil Gaiman
A treat indeed, to read Raymond Chandler for the first time. I almost envied the man,
— Lawrence Block
You said you envied your uncritical, unthinking sisters.That's not quite the same as wishing to be one — David Mitchell
We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.
— Sally Stanford
I envied Yeamon and felt sorry for myself at the same time, because I had seen him in a moment that made all of my happiness seem dull.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Still am I the richest and most to be envied - I, the lonesomest one!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Tom envied him with a heartbreaking surge of envy and self-pity.
— Patricia Highsmith
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
— Charles Caleb Colton
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
— Horatio Nelson
They looked shallow, self-absorbed. And a small, strangled part of me envied them.
— Mary E. Pearson
