| 62 Envy Quotes
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“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Winston Churchill Quotes |
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“Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.”
Bertrand Russell Quotes |
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“Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?”
Karen Brademeyer Quotes |
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“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.”
Harold Coffin Quotes |
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“Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.”
Frank Tyger Quotes |
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“Envy shoots at others and wounds itself”
English Proverb Quotes |
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“Envy eats nothing but its own heart”
German Proverb Quotes |
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“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
Winston Churchill Quotes |
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“A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.”
Thomas C. Haliburton Quotes |
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“With that malignant envy which turns pale,
And sickens, even if a friend prevail.”
Charles Churchill Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 127)
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“Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.
[Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi
Nulla potest placare quies.]”
Claudian (Claudianus) Quotes Source: De Raptu Proserpinoe (III, 290)
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“Envy's a sharper spur than pay:
No author ever spar'd a brother;
Wits are gamecocks to one another.”
John Gay Quotes Source: Fables-The Elephant and the Bookseller (pt. I, fable 10, l. 74)
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“Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise.
For envy is a kind of praise.”
John Gay Quotes Source: The Hound and the Huntsman
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“But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage
A woman's envy?”
George Granville, Lord Landsdowne Quotes Source: Progress of Beauty
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“Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby
Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.”
George Herbert Quotes Source: The Church--Church Porch (st. 44)
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“It is better to be envied than pitied.”
Herodotus ("Father of History") Quotes Source: Thalia
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“The artist envies what the arties gains,
The bard the rival bard's successful strains.”
Hesiod Quotes Source: Works and Days (bk. I, l. 43)
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“The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than
envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
[Lat., Invidus alterius marescit rebus opimis;
Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni
Majus tormentus.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 2, 57)
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“If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be
regarded as envious and ill-natured?
[Lat., Ego si risi quod ineptus
Pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum, lividus et mordax
videar?]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (I, 4, 91)
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“Envy! eldest-born of hell!”
Charles Jennens of Gopsall Quotes Source: also ascribed to Newburgh Hamilton
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“Envy, like fire, soars upward.
[Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.]”
Titus Livy Quotes Source: Annales (VIII, 31)
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“No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.
[Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.]”
Titus Livy Quotes Source: Annales (XXXVIII, 49)
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“I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.”
Christopher Marlowe Quotes Source: Doctor Faustus
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“The envious will die, but envy never.
[Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]”
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Quotes Source: Tartuffe (V, 3)
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“Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.
[Lat., Pascitur in vivis livor; post fata quiescit.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Amorum (I, 15, 39)
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