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One: Enormous relief. Two: Fury. Three: Envy, because he's got a cigarette and I don't,
— Jenn Cooksey
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
— Francis Bacon
Where envy is unavoidable it must be used as a stimulus to one's own efforts, not to the thwarting of the efforts of rivals.
— Bertrand Russell
It's okay to glance at the light of another. But when you look to long, it will blind you from seeing your own.
— Charles F. Glassman
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
— Ayn Rand
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and thegospel of envy.
[PERTH, 28 MAY 1948] — Winston S. Churchill
What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?""Everything, since he has a command and I have not. — Patrick O'Brian
I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.
— W.P. Kinsella
Envy's just another word for ambition
— Once Upon A Time
I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.
— Charles Krauthammer
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.
— John Gay
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
— George Eliot
Envy is when you want what someone else has. Jealousy's when you also don't want them to have it.
— Kirsten Hubbard
There's nothing more refreshing than a good dose of paranoia after sex. ~ Tara Cole
— Cindy Cruciger
We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.
— Alain De Botton
There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration - without envy.
— Kathryn Budig
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
— Arthur Chapman
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
— Max Beerbohm
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
— Charlotte Lennox
What good is envy? It's the one sin you can't have any fun at.
— Charlie Munger
Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.
— Alain De Botton
In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.
— Aeschylus
His face bore an imperial nose, one belonging to the same pedigree as the one venomously blasted from the face of the Sphinx statue by Greek envy.
— David B. Dacosta
Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.
— Emily Post
My envy's not dangerous; it wouldn't hurt a mouse.
— Henry James
Don't blow out someone's candle or you'll both end up in the dark.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Authentic love is soft, smooth, easy, it's laughter to the soul, it's communication, it's respect, it's an unconditional love without envy or malice.
— Colishia S. Benjamin
Despite some struggles of our own, Americas business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.
— John S. Watson
Envy, is Pride's greatest Fear.
— Anthony Liccione
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
— Benjamin Franklin
For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.
— Helen Rowland
Oh, I envy you!" he cried. "You are still nourished by yesterday's alms, but yesterday's happiness no longer nourishes me.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Don't envy having a bigger bra size. It's more of a pain in the ass than you realize.
— Rebecca Donovan
Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'
— Gina Barreca
I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
— Samuel Johnson
Avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
I envy the tireless intimacy of women's friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength.
— Pat Conroy
People that are jealous and envious of you are too freaking lazy to step up their own game.
— April Mae Monterrosa
If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?
— Pietro Metastasio
Standing in someone's light will only reveal your shadows.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there's no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn't fit me.
— William P. Smith
Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?
— Natalie Angier
They hate you when your up but they love you when your down that's why i never give a soul my last pound
— Blanco Vandam
I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.
— Ani DiFranco
Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.
— Neale Donald Walsch
To celebrate someone else's life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy.
— Sharon Salzberg
Envy isn't always green; it's often black and white!" (On book reviews - from an article written in 2013)
— Eric J. Gates
Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ... and he's in prison ... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.
— Bill Watterson
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It's not greed that drives the world, but envy.
— Charlie Munger
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.
— William Shakespeare
Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own.
— Wes Fesler
If girls could spit venom, it'd be through their eyes.
— S.D. Lawendowski
Envy's a sharper spur than pay.
— John Gay
That's how envy works: the better things are, the worse they are, because they don't belong to you.
— William Deresiewicz
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
I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f ... happy.
— Noel Gallagher
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
— Philip James Bailey
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.
When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.
— Nancy Friday
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
I have these huge, pointed ears. They're like three times the size of Orlando Bloom's ears. And I think he has ear envy, I love my ears.
— Evangeline Lilly
That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.
— Tavis Smiley
A turtle doesn't have to decide every morning whether to keep on bothering, it just carries on. Maybe that's why man kills everything: envy.
— Russell Hoban
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands,But more when envy breeds unkind division:
There comes the ruin, there begins confusion. — William Shakespeare
I envy my daughter's childhood.
— Rene Russo
But I envy the Commander's Wife her knitting. It's good to have small goals that can be easily attained.
— Margaret Atwood
No metal canno, not the hangman's axe
bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. — William Shakespeare
If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.
— Martha Roth
It's madness to envy other people's happiness. Happiness doesn't come of the peg, it has to be made to measure.
— Andre Gide
