Pastoral Resources

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

Envy is human nature.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

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.

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.

I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.