Envied Quotes about Admired and Adored

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

— Charles Caleb Colton
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

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

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

— Herodotus
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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

— Baltasar Gracian
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Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.

— Mark Twain
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If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

— Thomas Jefferson
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world.

— Edna Ferber
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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared;
but only men of character are trusted.

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

— John Berger
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Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

— B. R. Hayden
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My character and good name are in my own keeping.
Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

— Horatio Nelson
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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
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It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate.
I collected all his records and writing.

— Kenneth Williams
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This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region.
He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision.

— Osama bin Laden
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No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

— Sydney Pollack
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In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

— Rowan D. Williams
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I was both very successful and very left;
the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

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

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

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared;

My character and good name are in my own keeping.

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It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate.

This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region.

I was both very successful and very left;