Envy
Malice; ill will; spite.
Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Caesar.
Emulation; rivalry.
Public odium; ill repute.
An object of envious notice or feeling.
To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.
To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge.
To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.
To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
To hate.
To emulate.
To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.
To show malice or ill will; to rail.
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Envy Quotations
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
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha
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.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
Jim Rohn
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Rabindranath Tagore
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante Alighieri
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus
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
Envy Translations
envy in Danish is misunde, misundelse
envy in Dutch is benijden, jaloers zijn op, misgunnen
envy in Finnish is kadehtia
envy in French is enviez, envient, envions, envie, envier
envy in German is beneide, Neid, beneiden, beneiden
envy in Italian is invidiare, invidia
envy in Latin is fascino, invidia
envy in Norwegian is misunne, misunnelse
envy in Spanish is envidiar, envidia
envy in Swedish is avundas, avund
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