Top Envy Quotes Collection
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The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded by soul-destroying envy, to intimidate all those who might aspire to anything the slightest exceptional.Collection: Envy
it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.Collection: Envy
I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.Collection: Envy
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.Collection: Envy
Envy is a declaration of inferiority.Collection: Envy
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.Collection: Envy
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.Collection: Envy
When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.Collection: Envy
Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.Collection: Envy
I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today.Collection: Envy
Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.Collection: Envy
Envy bestrides praise.Collection: Envy
Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damnedCollection: Envy
Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.Collection: Envy
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.Collection: Envy
It is better to be envied than pitied.Collection: Envy
Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting.Collection: Envy
A competitive society is a society of envy.Collection: Envy
envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.Collection: Envy
The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.Collection: Envy
Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.Collection: Envy
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.Collection: Envy
Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.Collection: Envy
As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.Collection: Envy
I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.Collection: Envy
the truly covetous have never enough!Collection: Envy
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.Collection: Envy
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.Collection: Envy
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.Collection: Envy
Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial règime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic; there is, as we have said, little doubt that the American Congress and the French Chambre have a power over their respective nations which would rouse the envy of a Louis XIV or a George III were they alive today.Collection: Envy
I'm not envious of Leo [Messi]or Ney [Neymar]. Why would I be? If there is envy in the dressing room, you know it's only going to affect results.Collection: Envy
Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.Collection: Envy
Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.Collection: Envy
Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.Collection: Envy
Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.Collection: Envy
On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.Collection: Envy
Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.Collection: Envy
In a boom, envy; in a bust, anger.Collection: Envy
In Quebec, our goal isn't to reduce daycare service - a program the entire world envies - but to make it viable so tomorrow's families can keep benefiting from it.Collection: Envy
Envy derives from insecurity.Collection: Envy
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.Collection: Envy
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.Collection: Envy
The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.Collection: Envy
Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.Collection: Envy
Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.Collection: Envy
Don't envy those who make their wealth in an ungodly way. The wicked SEEM to prosper now and live without a care but they will spend eternity in terror and despair.Collection: Envy
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.Collection: Envy
Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not envy those which - who - are.Collection: Envy
Envy is a kind of praise.Collection: Envy