Envy Quotes

• In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and ultimately on a vicious urge to lash out against others for the pain of ones own insignificance. That has been a common thread in things as disparate as ghetto riots, two world wars, and now Islamic terrorism.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • World
  • War
  • Reality

• Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fires the greatest smoke.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Glory
  • Envy
  • Smoke

• Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched, how I would love myself! I would envy no one.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Thought
  • Envy
  • Lived

• I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Envy

• No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Money
  • Evil
  • Loss

• A person worth envying is a person who doesn't envy.

  

  Boonaa Mohammed
  • Person
  • Envy

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