Envious Quotes
166 quotes by 147 authors
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I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw…
— Sandra Bullock
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England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
— John Cleese
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
— Antisthenes
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One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the…
— Imagawa Sadayo
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
— Horace
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Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in community, and from…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
— Pindar
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This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis…
— Winston Churchill
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A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.
— Thomas Nagel
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,…
— William James
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The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers…
— Oscar Wilde
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Positively inclined people see everything in their right proportions. They put right things into perspective and are not envious of others. They attach importance to…
— Herman Van Rompuy
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O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs…
— William Carlos Williams
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The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
— John Lyly
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If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas;…
— John Donne
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I hope we can be happy where we are, be grateful for our blessings-now-here, accept the challenge that is ours and make the most of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I never understood the nudity thing. I’m so envious of people who can walk around naked.
— Robert Pattinson
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