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Envy Quotes

Envy Definition  
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I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
Joseph Epstein

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.
Sylvester Stallone

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
Chris Wallace

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

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.
Mike Krzyzewski

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
George Byron

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

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.
Alain de Botton

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

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

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

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus

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.
Aristotle

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

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.
Susanna Moodie

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

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

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

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.
Camille Paglia

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

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