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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
The silence of the envious is too noisy.
— Khalil Gibran
BEGIN the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.
— Marcus Aurelius
Don't be envious of the runner in the lane next to you; just focus on finishing your race.
— Rick Warren
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
The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.
— Helmut Schoeck
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
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms
— John Steinbeck
I'm not envious of many things in the world, but I wish I would have come up with that maneuver That is a perfect way to finish off an opponent.
— William Regal
The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself
— Helmut Schoeck
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The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.
— Baltasar Gracian
I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
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
Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.
— John Steinbeck
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
And I loved the girl precisely because she existed, and I was happy, not envious, that she existed.
— Umberto Eco
Those, who are believed to be most self - abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious
— Baruch Spinoza
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
— Antisthenes Pinto
She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action.
— Henry James
Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.
— Jason Bateman
When an eagle spreads its wings to fly, even the swan is envious.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
— Bertrand Russell
RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
— Ambrose Bierce
The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich. — Thiruvalluvar
Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
Mindset matters... always. The difference found between the victorious and the envious, the successful and the haters; is mindset.
— Steve Maraboli
The true definition of a phony is a high flyer with low mileage; a person who offers a worldview from the comforts of his/her living room.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.
— William Petty
The envious will die, but envy never.
— Moliere
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 proud man hath no God; the enviousman hath no neighbor; the angry man
hath not himself. — Joseph Hall
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
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
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
Fire engine red paint job, big block V8 rumbling, the 1968 Ford Mustang elicited envious stares from nearly everyone it passed.
— Andrew Clawson
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
— Baltasar Gracian
I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.
— Moby
I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.
— Derrick Bell
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 think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.
— Michael Caine
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
For him in vain the envious seasons rollWho bears eternal summer in his soul. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.
— Kurt Vonnegut
England, bound in with the triumphant sea,Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune. — William Shakespeare
I never understood the nudity thing. I'm so envious of people who can walk around naked.
— Robert Pattinson
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
How envious I am that the sun may kiss your porcelain skin and forever change how the world sees you.
— Phar West Nagle
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
