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Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.
— Mengistu Haile Mariam
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
— Ben Jonson
There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
— Baltasar Gracian
There is no good envy, except the one that motivates us to reach higher goals and be better than the person we were yesterday.
— Ogwo David Emenike
I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.
— George Carlin
The sun loses nothing by allowing the stars to shine.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
This beautiful, wonderful, sexy-as-sin woman is mine. You may look - and seethe with envy - but never touch.
— Olivia Cunning
How can we explain the perpetuity of envya vice which yields no return? — Honore De Balzac
Neither compares nor competes.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.
— Alan Watts
Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.
— Richard Brookhiser
Can angels lie spine to spine?If not, how they must envy us humans — Kamila Shamsie
I envy people who could just have one drink and not go look for cocaine afterwards.
— Felipe Esparza
To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.
— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
Life is not a competition.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
She didn't sleep much that night. She spent the better part of the night burning with resentment and envy.
— Ira Trivedi
Envy is not meant to cause hatred, but to inspire us to be more.
— Brandon Lee Godbee
The greatest enemies of us alcoholics are resentment, jealousy, envy, frustration, and fear.
— Alcoholics Anonymous
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
— Arthur Chapman
Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.
— Doris Lessing
It is better to be envied than pitied.
— Herodotus
When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.
— Nancy Friday
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.
— Marie Howe
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
— Epicurus
If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.
— Maria Faustina Kowalska
They would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.
— Charlotte Bronte
Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He has a mouth, lord," Gerbruht said."I envy him," I said.
"Envy him, lord?"
"Most of us have to lower our trews to shit. — Bernard Cornwell
We envy others; they begrudge us. We are even.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.
— Filippo Brunelleschi
The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.
— Mitt Romney
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
— Karl A. Menninger
No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.
— Tupac Shakur
There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate; the more they hate the more you grow.
— Anthony Liccione
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
— Honore De Balzac
The cankered passion of envy is nothing akin to the silly envy of the ass.L'Estrange,Fab.xxxviii.
— Samuel Johnson
Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren't hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love.
— James Richardson
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 eyes envy the mind.
— Zhuangzi
Yes, the heat lacerated the heart. And alone she resisted it, entire, virgin, the envy of the sea.
— Marguerite Duras
Don't blow out someone's candle or you'll both end up in the dark.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.
— Mason Cooley
Why waste your strength envying and hating instead of loving?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future siblings.
— Linda Sunshine
If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves.
— Napoleon Hill
I care not for your envy, or your hypocrisy, or even for your human nature.
— James Fenimore Cooper
Uncle is gone, she wrote instead of all this. And somehow, in some way, I envy him.
— Victoria Aveyard
After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.
— Mason Cooley
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
— Baron De Montesquieu
For some reason, the strength and deadliness he keeps so easily leashed make him the most compelling man I've ever met. I envy his self-control.
— Amanda Bouchet
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
— Philip James Bailey
Study says dogs can be green with envy
— Anonymous
When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.
— Marilyn Monroe
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
— Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
I think it's very painful, and that it's better not to have any doubts. I envy those who don't have any; I envy them a lot. They are happy people.
— Nathalie Sarraute
Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.
— Helmut Schoeck
The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.
— Rich Mullins
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ...
— Hannah More
