Quotes about Envious

As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.

As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.

Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of the Christian cult and would feel that, when the best of gold and jewels were given to the God Who made them, there was some slight made to the poor - not because they were interested in the poor, but because they were envious of that wealth.

Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.