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We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.
— Hillman Curtis
This beautiful, wonderful, sexy-as-sin woman is mine. You may look - and seethe with envy - but never touch.
— Olivia Cunning
The truly covetous have never enough!
— Delarivier Manley
He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?
— Swami Vivekananda
People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.
— Henry Miller
A man shall never be enriched by envy.
— Thomas Draxe
I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
— J. Paul Getty
I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame
— John Adams
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
Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
— Francis Beaumont
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
— Margaret Thatcher
We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.
— Alain De Botton
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
— Charles Churchill
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.
— Martin Amis
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
— Charles Bukowski
Never underestimate the power of envy.
— Elif Shafak
Dead men may envy living mites in cheese,
Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,
And subdivide, and never come to death. — Wilfred Owen
Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,
And subdivide, and never come to death. — Wilfred Owen
Envy and greed always - always - exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.
— Billy Graham
My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.
— Aleatha Romig
A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.
— H.L. Mencken
Never be envious of what someone else has.You don't know the price they paid to get it, and you don't know the price they are paying to keep it.
— Stephan Labossiere
A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them.
— Henry R. Luce
We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I envy the trees that grow at crossroads. They are never forced to decide which way to go ...
— Margarita Engle
Never envy others. Be happy and love your work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
— Joseph Epstein
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
— George Bancroft
Ty is green but never with envy. Best of all, he's usually available to help move a heavy piece of furniture.
— John Hopkins
Never show how smart you are, dears, or someone will envy you.
— Elizabeth Moon
Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.
— Anthony Liccione
When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.
— Nancy Friday
Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.
— Mike Norton
Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
— Eubie Blake
Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated.
— Jeff Wheeler
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
Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is
where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge. — Robert C. Shannon
where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge. — Robert C. Shannon
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
— Oliver Stone
Envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.
— Margaret Of Valois
Roots never get the appreciation that a flower does, but that doesn't make them envious.
— Debasish Mridha
The envious will die, but envy never.
— Moliere
Your skill can never buy you love. It may win you admiration and envy, but never love. If that was what you were after, you have wasted your time.
— Patricia St. John
When I woke in the dark I was smiling - it's a happy thing to brace for a visit from old friend Envy who then for some reason never shows up.
— Leif Enger
Envy, slothful vice,
Never makes its way in lofty characters,
But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls
Close to the ground. — Ovid
Never makes its way in lofty characters,
But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls
Close to the ground. — Ovid
Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.
— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice
— Walter Scott