top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Envy quotes
"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
"If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang."
"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."
Envy,
"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."
"As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things."
"Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people."
Explore more quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
"Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them."
"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."
"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
bottom of page