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Envy Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
- The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
- Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
- Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit…
- The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to…
More Envy Quotes
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell. — Philip James Bailey
- The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest… — P T Barnum
- Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in… — Francis Beaumont
- Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. — John Berger
- Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. — Josh Billings
- It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. — Aeschylus
- He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. — Aeschylus
- Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. — Eubie Blake
- God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. — Elizabeth Bowen
- Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep. — Helen Gurley Brown