Best Envy Words
1097 Envy quotes by 766 unique authors
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Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.
— Emily Post
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Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire…
— Joseph Addison
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Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses…
— William Ralph Inge
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't…
— Tennessee Williams
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Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
— Juvenal
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Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.
— Ovid
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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
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A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
— Samuel Johnson
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Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
— Lord Byron
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Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.
— Alfred Capus
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We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
— Jean Rostand
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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
— Mark Twain
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"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
— Ayn Rand
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Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.
— Warren Buffett
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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
— Samuel Johnson
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Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves…
— Gary North
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What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool.…
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other…
— William Shakespeare
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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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