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Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
Author:
Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe
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Envy is an insult to oneself.
Author:
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
Author:
Simone Weil
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I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
Author:
Chris Wallace
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With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Author:
Lope Vega
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Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Author:
Jean Vanier
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Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.
Author:
Studs Terkel
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Author:
Rabindranath Tagore
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
Author:
Tacitus
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To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
Author:
Oliver Stone
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Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
Author:
Stendhal
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I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.
Author:
Sylvester Stallone
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
Author:
Vittorio Sica
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
Author:
Richard Sheridan
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There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
Author:
William Shenstone
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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
Author:
William Shenstone
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
Author:
Jacopo Sannazaro
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
Author:
Sallust
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Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.
Author:
Paul Ryan
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Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
Author:
Jim Rohn
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Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
Author:
Chi Rodriguez
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
Author:
Charley Reese
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Author:
Petrarch
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Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Author:
Roger Peterson
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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
Author:
Charles Peirce
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
Author:
Bill Owens
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Envy aims very high.
Author:
Ovid
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I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
Author:
Joe Orton
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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
Author:
Charles Olson
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The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
Author:
Dave Mustaine
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I envy the dead.
Author:
William Mulholland
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Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.
Author:
Susanna Moodie
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We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
Author:
Karl Menninger
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Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
Author:
Titus Livius
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I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
Author:
Oscar Levant
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Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.
Author:
Michelle Kwan
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I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.
Author:
Mike Krzyzewski
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One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
Author:
Ben Kingsley
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There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.
Author:
Jim Jeffords
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Author:
Horace
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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Author:
Oliver Holmes, Jr.
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I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
Author:
Dustin Hoffman
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
Author:
Ben Hecht
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
Author:
Thomas Haliburton
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
Author:
Paul Getty
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
Author:
John Gay
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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Author:
Erich Fromm
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Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.
Author:
Dave Freudenthal
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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
Author:
Joseph Epstein
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I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
Author:
Joseph Epstein
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Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
Author:
Joseph Epstein
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In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
Author:
Joseph Epstein
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I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.
Author:
Cary Elwes
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On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.
Author:
Griffin Dunne
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On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.
Author:
David Duchovny
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Author:
Abraham Cowley
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The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.
Author:
Jerry Costello
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
Author:
Harold Coffin
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To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Author:
Charles Churchill
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Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
Author:
Arthur Chapman
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
Author:
Abraham Cahan
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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.
Author:
George Byron
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Author:
Buddha
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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
Author:
Thomas Browne
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I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.
Author:
Louise Brown
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Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
Author:
Helen Brown
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Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.
Author:
Arthur Brooks
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In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
Author:
Alain Botton
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God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
Author:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
Author:
Eubie Blake
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Author:
Josh Billings
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
Author:
John Berger
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Envy is human nature.
Author:
Monica Bellucci
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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.
Author:
Francis Beaumont
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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
Author:
George Bancroft
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
Author:
Philip Bailey
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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 things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Author:
Aristotle
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I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
Author:
Sherwood Anderson
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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Author:
Dante Alighieri
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Author:
Aeschylus
