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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
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
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
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
The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.
— Helmut Schoeck
They loved in a way that made fairy tales envious.
— Brittainy C. Cherry
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
Your tears are never invisiblethere 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 enviousman 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
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
For him in vain the envious seasons rollWho bears eternal summer in his soul. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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[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
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
