Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

Genius is independent of situation.

Genius is of no country.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

A joke's a very serious thing.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame to copy faults is want of sense

With that malignant envy which turns pale And sickens even if a friend prevail.

Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.

No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

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.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

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.

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.

Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Envy is human nature.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

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.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.