“Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
“Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The best way to torture haters is with your happiness. There's nothing people hate more than seeing you be successful. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“Beware of those who are bitter, for they will never allow you to enjoy your fruit.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that I think too much. Sometimes I envy the ignorant. I envy people who can just turn it off… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in… — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
People often see qualities in others that they don't see in themselves. Then they hold them accountable for their own short comings. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny… — Annabel Pitcher Copy Share Image
In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Envy is resentment of good things that happen to other people. Jealousy increases the importance of the person we wish belonged only… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Part of me wanted to be like the other guys at school. I wanted to be simple. People who do less thinking… — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“But the boys' bicycle pack also sent a stab of envy through me. If I couldn't yet capture John Cleary with my… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“You sometimes heard about the marginally talented wives of powerful men publishing children's books or designing handbags or, most commonly, becoming photographers.… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
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