Certainly, you envy the guys that have done all kinds of things, a variety of good scripts and good directors. Then again, having worked with Cassavetes has satisfied a big part of that. – Peter Falk
The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance. – Filippo Brunelleschi
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I’m pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It’s impressive. – Freddie Highmore
I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called. – Dorothea Dix
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. – Charley Reese
I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy. – Chris Wallace
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. – Charles Churchill
I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women. – Cary Elwes
On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We’d like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts. – David Duchovny
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock. – Francis Beaumont
Any designer believes his gun is the best, and when its test performance is a bit less impressive compared to others, he feels bitterness and envy. – Mikhail Kalashnikov
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. – Charles Olson
The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy. – David Lehman
Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector. – Nina Easton
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. – Elbert Hubbard
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. – George Bancroft
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. – Lope de Vega
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
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest – perhaps I should say the most insidious – of the seven deadly sins. – Joseph Epstein