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Envy is an insult to oneself.

Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'

Quotes by William Shatner

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

Quotes by William Shenstone

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Quotes by William Shenstone

I envy the dead.

Quotes by William Mulholland

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Quotes by Vittorio De Sica

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

Quotes by Toni Braxton

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Quotes by Thornton Wilder

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Quotes by Thomas Browne

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Quotes by Tacitus

I don't envy guards. They're quick little monkeys, those guys.

Quotes by Steven Adams

The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.

Quotes by Stephen Moore

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

Quotes by Stendhal

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

Quotes by Simone Weil

America's infrastructure was once the envy of the world.

Quotes by Scott Pruitt

Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.

Quotes by Sarah Churchwell

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Quotes by Sallust

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

Quotes by Robert Kraft

When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy.

Quotes by Robert Kraft

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

Quotes by Richard Eyre

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I envy my daughter's childhood.

Quotes by Rene Russo

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

Quotes by Rachel Weisz

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Rabindranath Tagore

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

Quotes by Philip James Bailey

Envy aims very high.

Quotes by Ovid

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

Quotes by Oscar Levant

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Quotes by Oliver Stone

Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.

Quotes by Nina Easton

The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.

Quotes by Naveen Jain

Envy is human nature.

Quotes by Monica Bellucci

Any designer believes his gun is the best, and when its test performance is a bit less impressive compared to others, he feels bitterness and envy.

Quotes by Mikhail Kalashnikov

I'm at a point now where I crave healthy musical environments, where there is a genuine exchange of ideas without repressed envy or resentment, and where people in the band want to be there regardless of what public accolades may come their way. Unfortunately, Mr. Bungle was not one of those places.

Quotes by Mike Patton

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.

Quotes by Michelle Kwan

I have friends who write all the time, and I envy them terribly.

Quotes by Michael McDonald

Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.

Quotes by Martha Nussbaum

I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.

Quotes by Louise Brown

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

Quotes by Louis MacNeice

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Quotes by Lope de Vega

I envy Jonghyun's technique and energy, Onew's voice, Key's rapping skills and Minho's looks.

Quotes by Lee Tae-min

I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.

Quotes by Laura Mvula

Carrying envy makes life more difficult.

Quotes by Kym Whitley

Why would you envy a man who doesn't know the names of all the planets, is a 'high functioning' sociopath, and has no friends? Because Sherlock Holmes thinks in all the ways we wish we could.

Quotes by Kyle Hill

Frontrunners always attract envy, and a desperate campaign to stop them in their tracks.

Quotes by Kwasi Kwarteng

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.

Quotes by Karl A. Menninger

Especially when I'm heckled, that's a sticky situation because I don't defuse it... I really envy guys who have a grittier onstage presence and can really go after someone. I used to teach preschool.

Quotes by Josh Gondelman

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

Quotes by Josh Billings

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

Quotes by Joseph Epstein

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

Quotes by Joseph Epstein

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

Quotes by Joseph Epstein

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

Quotes by Joseph Epstein

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

Quotes by John Gay

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Quotes by John Berger

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Quotes by Joe Orton

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.

Quotes by Jerry Costello

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

Quotes by Jean Vanier

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

Quotes by Jacopo Sannazaro

Whether couched in terms of envy, admiration, or derision, celebrity fascination begins as an exercise in imagining what it would be like to lead a more carefree and pleasurable life.

Quotes by Jacob Weisberg

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Quotes by Horace

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Quotes by Heraclitus

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Quotes by Henry Fielding

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

Quotes by Helen Gurley Brown

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Quotes by Harold Coffin

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

Quotes by Harold E. Varmus

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.

Quotes by Griffin Dunne

Envy is the central fact of American life.

Quotes by Gore Vidal

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Quotes by George Bancroft

There are people who envy you and don't want to see you succeed, but there are also people who pray for your success.

Quotes by Gautam Rode

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

Quotes by Freddie Highmore

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

Quotes by Francis Beaumont

The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.

Quotes by Filippo Brunelleschi

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

Quotes by Eubie Blake

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.

Quotes by Erich Fromm

One of my favorite things about America is our breathtaking collection of national and state parks, many of which boast wonders the Psalmist would envy.

Quotes by Eric Metaxas

Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.

Quotes by Eric Dane

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

Quotes by Emil Cioran

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Elbert Hubbard

I don't envy young actors.

Quotes by Edd Byrnes

There's all kinds of envy out there on the Left.

Quotes by Ed Schultz

I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.

Quotes by Dorothea Dix

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

People always ask me: How are you? I say I'm the envy of millions. I've been a lucky guy.

Quotes by Dennis DeYoung

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Dante Alighieri

I avoid envy at all costs.

Quotes by Claudia Winkleman

A man's tailored jacket is like a compartmentalized storage unit with sleeves. Women eye those pockets with envy while searching for a ticket stub lost in a handbag.

Quotes by Christina Binkley

I don't envy these kids these days. Between Instagram and Twitter... the easiest thing is just take your phone off the hook, and you're good.

Quotes by Chris Mullin

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

Quotes by Chi Chi Rodriguez

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

Quotes by Charley Reese

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

Quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

Quotes by Charles Olson

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

Quotes by Charles Krauthammer

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Quotes by Charles Churchill

I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn't in that medium.

Quotes by Catherine Hardwicke

Top 1 Percent progressivism emphasizes the idea of fairness - but it's nevertheless a politics of outrage, animated by at least a trace of envy. It's as if 'millionaires and billionaires' were the principal problem facing America today.

Quotes by Cass Sunstein

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.

Quotes by Cary Elwes

If you don't know what Gamergate is, my God, do I envy you.

Quotes by Brianna Wu

I don't envy people with long hair. So, I'm glad mine is gone.

Quotes by Baron Corbin

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

Quotes by Bainbridge Colby

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

Quotes by Baltasar Gracian

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