Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are. — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy. — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If envy were tangible and had a shape it would be the shape of a boomerang. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I would only sit muttering with envy for their broad umbrellas, their dryness, and the sweet, unwounded banality of their lives.” — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Apple's iTunes program was once the envy of the world. A combined digital music store and player, it could also sync your… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
“There is nothing by which a man exasperates most people more, than displaying a superior ability of briliancy in conversation. They seem… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“He looked at the people walking about and envied them because they had friends; sometimes his envy turned to hatred because they… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them;… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I treasure the breaths we take together, and I am stricken with envy for them, for they mingle closer and more completely… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The perfect antidote to envy is not, as you may suspect, perfect success. The perfect antidote to envy is self-love - when… — Susan Page Copy Share Image
The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“An envy of that one consummate part Swept me, who mock. Whether I laugh or weep, Some inner silences are at my… — Leonie Adams Copy Share Image
Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy. — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
If you want to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear. — Glenn Clark Copy Share Image
“We simply cannot put a man into a crucible to see if he will give off unmistakable green fumes of envy.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter. — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
Our infrastructure in America, once the envy of the world, is losing its battle against time, growth, weather, and wear. — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
I would say, anyone who knows me says they don't envy my life. I've just been through very hard times, yes. — Maye Musk Copy Share Image
“Envy, she decided, was a truly uncomfortable emotion. It said things about you that you didn't want to hear.” — Sarah Morgan Copy Share Image
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
![“Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see the profits of our trade snatched from us, to enrich our enemies and persecutors. That unequalled spirit of enterprise . . . an inexhaustible mine of national wealth, would…” quote by Alexander Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/308/alexander-hamilton-619_admiration_passive-commerce-should-thus-compel-us-t_952757.jpg)
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