Envy Quotes
1097 quotes by 819 authors
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good…
— Aristotle
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
— Philip James Bailey
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music…
— P T Barnum
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Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
— Francis Beaumont
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
— John Berger
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
— Josh Billings
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
— Aeschylus
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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
— Aeschylus
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Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
— Eubie Blake
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God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
— Helen Gurley Brown
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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
— Thomas Browne
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
— Lord Byron
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There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment's thought…
— Sholom Aleichem
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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
— Dante Alighieri
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
— Winston Churchill
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
— Winston Churchill
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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
— Emile M. Cioran
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