#envy

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself. ↗

— George Eliot

#self-doubt #life

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#envious #envy #life #life

There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#pleasure

There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world. ↗

— Jim Jeffords

#educational #ensuring #envy #future #homeland

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child. ↗

— Susanna Moodie

#child #children #display #dress #envy

The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world - where they rely on charity, dry pieces of bread and water, where they are subjected to harsh treatment, when they can be free and be the envy of their colleagues in the afterlife. They are only too eager to sign on the dotted line and join the ranks of the Taliban. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#bread #charity #colleagues #dotted #dry

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#envy #feels #general #kind #least

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. ↗

— Charley Reese

#envy #had #malice #shape #tangible

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#done #enter #envy #greatest #harm

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#envy #fun #only #seven #sins