Envy Quotes
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I knew that what I had felt was envy or regret, not for something lost but for something never achieved.
P. D. James -
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.
Craig Brown
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I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.
Hal Boyle -
I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they have warm peachy hearts, whereas the English have horrible spiteful withered hearts - success in England inspires envy - in America, it inspires hope.
Sebastian Horsley -
In the beginning, envy is revealed through inappropriate zeal and rivalry, and later by fervour with spite and the blaming of the one who is envied.
Ambrose of Optina -
Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible.
Georg Brandes -
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.
Jane Pauley -
I'm going to have cute boobs 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.
Christina Applegate -
I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
Eric Burdon -
The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.
Democritus -
It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.
George Payne Rainsford James
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The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.
Jerry Costello -
Envy suggests inferiority.
Wayne Gerard Trotman -
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
Emil Cioran -
Envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay -
My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.
William Shakespeare -
Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
Sara Willis
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Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
Arthur Chapman -
When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
Plutarch -
Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.
William Lilly -
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.
Pythagoras