"Envy is an insult to oneself." — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"Envy is an insult to oneself."
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30 Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko has 30 quotes on this site.
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Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
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Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage,…
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Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a…
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel…
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Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
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All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.
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In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a…
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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More Envy Quotes
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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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