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If one is sensible, if one is reasonable, if one never allows oneself a base thought or an envious emotion, naturally one says: Let's make a foursome! — Doris Lessing

It is the habit of the envious man to absolve himself of public wrongs with his own personal grievances. — Victor Hugo

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring. — Larry Rivers

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

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline. — Michael Keaton

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children. — Johnny Hunt

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. — John Quincy Adams

Today was also The Grass is Always Browner on the Other Side Day - a day to celebrate what you have, and not to be envious of others. — George Mahood

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will. — Thomas Nagel

I don't care for success. The ideas sitting in my head are annoyed by, and envious of, that which I've already written. — Anton Chekhov

Those who object to wit are envious of it. — William Hazlitt

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack. — Ovid

I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time. — Jack McCollough

I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows. — Chris Pine

The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes. — Helmut Schoeck

Even success softens not the heart of the envious. — Pindar

They loved in a way that made fairy tales envious. — Brittainy C. Cherry

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. — Horace

Mimicry reassures the weak, and the envious fool takes the risk as often as the visionary who mocks the error and leave the man alone. — Paul Theroux

Don't waste your time being envious of what you don't have or who you want to be. Instead, focus on what you do have and who you can become. — April Mae Monterrosa

Anytime you feel jealous or envious, you reject your uniqueness. It's a criticism of God's plan for you. — Rick Warren

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. — Zora Neale Hurston

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

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty. — Penn Jillette

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms — John Steinbeck

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are. — John Cleese

Your tears are never invisible
there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out. — Shannon L. Alder

The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself — Helmut Schoeck

People ask if I can get it up in the morning. I tell them are you kidding I'm envious of a stiff wind. — Rodney Dangerfield

I'm envious of the pigeon. It doesn't have a care in the world beyond eating, sleeping, and defecating on park statues. That's the life. — C.J. Roberts

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . . — William Shakespeare

Envious, cold, and lonely. The perfect ingredients for a nice homemade bitter pie. — Cecelia Ahern

Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle. — Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont

How envious I am that the sun may kiss your porcelain skin and forever change how the world sees you. — Phar West Nagle

Lovely as a spring day but not the sort to make one envious, any more than one would envy the sun its ability to shine. — Julie Anne Long

I never understood the nudity thing. I'm so envious of people who can walk around naked. — Robert Pattinson

Then her envious heart had peace, as much as an envious heart can have. — Wilhelm Grimm

I mean, that is a mop of real hair. He has hair like a 15-year-old ... and so, I have to acknowledge I am a little envious of his hair. — Harry Reid

Envy yearns to find flaws. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. — William Shakespeare

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. — Baltasar Gracian

At my age I'm envious of a stiff wind. — Rodney Dangerfield

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation. — William Shakespeare

Roots never get the appreciation that a flower does, but that doesn't make them envious. — Debasish Mridha

Men, in general, are so treacherous, so envious, and so cruel that it is a comfort to find one who is only weak. — Nancy Mitford

You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. You are dissatisfied on account of my rise in fortune, and you can't help showing it. — Charles Dickens

You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn. — Sylvia Plath

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

And envy, envious of a time when the poet, the mystic, the scientist and the statesman were nobler than the merchant. — Soroosh Shahrivar

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

Normally, what you're envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels ... almost nonexistent things. — James Salter

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale. — Baron De Montesquieu

You meet these people who are confident all the time. They annoy me. And I wonder if it's because I'm envious or if it's because they're shallow. — Guy Pearce

I'm envious of how well he's engineered to survive, to conquer, to outlast apocalypse. — Karen Marie Moning

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own. — Charlotte Lennox

People that are jealous and envious of you are too freaking lazy to step up their own game. — April Mae Monterrosa

Those, who are believed to be most self - abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious — Baruch Spinoza

It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become. — Rolf Dobelli

Abusing the prosperous in order to curry the favor of the envious, is an old game that still works better than it should. — Edgar Watson Howe

I'm the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation. — Jeaniene Frost

I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer. — Moby

Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it. — Young Jeezy

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind. — Benjamin Franklin

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

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit. — Hannah More

Fire engine red paint job, big block V8 rumbling, the 1968 Ford Mustang elicited envious stares from nearly everyone it passed. — Andrew Clawson

I would love to do a Western someday. Every time I watch any of them, I'm so envious. — Sarah Clarke

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy. — Mason Cooley

Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I — Alfred Kreymborg

The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic. — Sonja Lyubomirsky

It's silly to think the left eye would envy the right or that one foot would be jealous of the other, and yet so often it is the case. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious. — T. S. Eliot

The proud man hath no God; the envious
man hath no neighbor; the angry man
hath not himself. — Joseph Hall

Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another. — Andy Stanley

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ... — Hannah More

An envious heart can't be original. — Toba Beta

Envy! Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity. Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself. — John R.W. Stott

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy. — Voltaire

The envious will die, but envy never. — Moliere

England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune. — William Shakespeare

That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do. — Kurt Vonnegut

And then her envious heart was glad, and as happy as such a heart could be. — Jacob Grimm

I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel
The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel — Neil Gaiman

For him in vain the envious seasons roll
Who bears eternal summer in his soul. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

[Y]ou're in a fog. When you circle round, you watch us live. You watch us struggle and you're envious. — Jean Genet

But to tell you the truth, it is the same for me. I am as envious of her as she is of me. But I have seen her rise and rise. — Philippa Gregory

I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it. — Chuck Klosterman

I am beginning to have more powerful enemies and more envious ones, too. — Francisco Goya

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

Life is not a competition.
There is enough work for everybody.
Find your passion and fulfill it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers. — Michael Caine

True friends are very transparent to each other, they don't have hidden agenda and they are not envious of each other's achievements. — Euginia Herlihy

In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, "that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart"! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think I'd rather be heading to detention right now than to talk to him. My stomach is tied up in so many knots it could make a boy scout envious. — Colleen Hoover

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms. — Benjamin Disraeli

When we hesitate to change on time, we predispose ourselves to miss the boat that would take us to our envious future... — Assegid Habtewold

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate. — Derrick Bell

How can I be envious of where you are when I've been there myself? — Mitch Albom