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Envious Quotes

Envious Definition

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes

As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself.
Lloyd Bridges

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.
Roman Polanski

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.
Howard Hodgkin

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
Arthur Keith

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
Horatio Nelson

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
Desiderius Erasmus

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.
William Petty

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Baltasar Gracian

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Horace

The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
Breyten Breytenbach

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Baruch Spinoza

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