Envy Quotes
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I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'
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All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
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Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable.
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If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.
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My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.
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Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
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Envy is a kind of praise.
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For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.
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Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
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The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization.
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We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but the desire to equal others is a sign of envy.
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Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.
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Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
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Jokes rot. They're not like songs. I always envy singers - Sting is always going to sing 'Roxanne'. But people want to hear new jokes. I've written jokes as good as 'Roxanne', I believe. But I can't tell them again.
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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
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Objecting to the diagnosis of penis envy was a sure sign of penis envy.
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Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.
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Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.
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Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.
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If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.
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Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
