Envy Quotes

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.

Gustav Stresemann

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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Erich Fromm

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To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

Emil Cioran

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Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

Charles Bukowski

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We are becoming so fickle and self involved. Always looking for the next best thing - especially when it comes to people. We spend hours buried in our phones trying to keep up with the social lives of people we may not even know. Envy and the fear of missing out have taken over. Yet we are all still longing for human connection.

Whitney Wolfe Herd

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Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

Jacopo Sannazaro

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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Envy is an insult to oneself.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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I envy Jesus because he's dead.

T. C. Boyle

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When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

Radhanath Swami

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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.

J. Paul Getty

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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

Harold E. Varmus

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I think there's a big price to pay for consciousness, knowing that it's all going to end and we're mortal. I envy dogs. They don't know they're getting old! And they don't know it's towards the end. I mean, they never think, 'I used to get by on 16 hours of sleep a day. Now, if I don't get 19, I'm a wreck.'

Dana Carvey

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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

Baltasar Gracian

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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.

Joe Orton

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How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review, or even a film script, but for fiction I must have my own desk, my own wall with my own postcards pinned to it, and my own window not to look out of.

John Banville

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I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

John Lanchester

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Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Stendhal

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Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much.

Rose Kennedy

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I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Louis MacNeice

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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Josh Billings

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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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You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.

Craig Brown

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Living in Manhattan opened me to whole new sets of things to envy, study, gather and imagine stealing. A full-size 1809 German harp, beautifully painted with three goddesses, covered in a pea-green coat of great silvery refinement: mine for $180. Though all its strings were broken, its beauty let it claim a quarter of my one - bedroom.

Allan Gurganus

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