Envy Quotes
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Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.
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All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
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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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Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.
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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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I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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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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In snowboarding, I've always looked at really strong competitors through a lens of gratitude rather than envy in the sense that the better my competition is, the more it forces me to work hard, focus, and be better myself if I want to succeed, which I do.
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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
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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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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.
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All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
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If someone is leaving you behind, and you are becoming jealous and embittered, keep praying that he may have success in the very matter where he is awakening your envy; and whether he is helped or not, one thing is sure, that your own soul will be cleansed and ennobled.
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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
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It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
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We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.
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Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.
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Egalite is an expression of envy. It means, in the real heart of every Republican, ' No one shall be better off than I am;' and while this is preferred to good government, good government is impossible.
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A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.
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Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or 'mathematics envy.'
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I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.
