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Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life in the power of another. — Aeschylus

To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot. — Sappho

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. — Irving Layton

How much I'd always envied the tight life of voles. The hidey hole was happiness. — Sam Lipsyte

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living. — Horace

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

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth. — Shan Sa

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

Off to one side his fine white teacup waited for him with a patience Aria envied — Patrick Rothfuss

I've never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script. — Sarah Dessen

You - the three of you - you shone, you know? You liked each other. You had fun. I envied you those friendships more than anything else. — J.K. Rowling

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

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them. — Voltaire

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 her, sensing that she lived each day as if it was her last. — B. J. Daniels

He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed. — Karen Joy Fowler

In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did? — Mitch Albom

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

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied. — Criss Jami

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

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. — Criss Jami

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied. — Mark Twain

Freedom cannot be labeled nor won nor envied. Only when one doesn't realize what freedom is, is one truly free. — D.J. Niko

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. — John Berger

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

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. — Herodotus

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

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did. — Sydney Pollack

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones. — Chanakya

Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned. — Conrad Black

I envied my uncritical, unthinking sisters. — David Mitchell

I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire.
Another life is never safely envied. — Robert Wells

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

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything. — Erica Jong

If you are not envied, you are not enviable. — Aeschylus

I'm loved by some, hated by many, envied by most, yet wanted by all. (Josiah) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

A corpse boasted of being pain and trouble free. No one envied his lot. — Marty Rubin

Prestige! Sir, is it nothing? To be revered by fools, gaped at by children, envied by the rich and scorned by the wise. — Stendhal

He wore the evidence of thinking all over his face, open and easy to read. Leah envied him that confidence to show what he was feeling. — Lauren Dane

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

How she envied Diesel. He could love someone without knowing them. — Sonja Yoerg

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

When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting. — Zane Grey

Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy. — Ali Babacan

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

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied. — Pindar

She was a small cat, barely five pounds of black chinchilla fur and fangs, but Pearl Harbor envied her air-raid vocalizations. — Rhys Ford

They looked shallow, self-absorbed. And a small, strangled part of me envied them. — Mary E. Pearson

Everyone was boarding a night train, heading to a far-off destination. Tsukuru envied them. At least they had a place they needed to go to. — Haruki Murakami

He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them. — Charles Finch