Quotes by Envious Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent. Alexander Lowen envious levels want The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. Baltasar Gracian envious hell heaven To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind. Benjamin Franklin envious blind mind The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure. Charles Caleb Colton envious envy praise No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own. Charlotte Lennox envious envy virtue I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows. Chris Pine envious eyebrows faces Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good. David Byrne envious guitar names The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise. Francois de La Rochefoucauld envious merit praise The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes. Helmut Schoeck envious kindness men The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have. Henry Hazlitt envious advantage trouble I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits. Howard Hodgkin envious portraits artist An envious man grows lean at another's fatness. Horace envious fatness men I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation. Jeaniene Frost envious imitation The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail. John Cleese envious britain failing The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well. John Lyly envious envy harm When I see other rappers' lyrics of "I don't do what I don't like to do", I feel like it's really cool and there's also an envious side to me about it. Kim Nam-joon envious rapper sides The silence of the envious is too noisy. Khalil Gibran noisy envious silence That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do. Kurt Vonnegut envious good-work people As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself Lloyd Bridges envious stuntman wanted Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy. Mason Cooley envious greedy success 12»