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~ Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy. ~

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

~ Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. ~

Josh Billings

~ I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on. ~

Oscar Levant

~ Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy. ~

Jaques D\'ambroise

~ Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone, extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic, whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling, never a gentleman. ~

Benjamin Disraeli

~ 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

~ Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. ~

Harold Coffin

~ Envy shoots at others and wounds itself ~

English Proverb

~ Envy shoots at others and wounds itself ~

English Proverb

~ Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. ~

Josh Billings

~ Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. ~

Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn

~ It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ~

Aeschylus

~ If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy. ~

Horace, Epistles

~ 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

~ Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men ~

Dante Alighieri

~ Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home ~

Thornton Wilder

~ I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. ~

Oliver Wendell Holmes

~ 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

~ The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. ~

Goethe

~ Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. ~

John Berger

~ Want oú compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes, it is to be feared, are seldom turned up to those who are manifestly greater, better, wiser, or happier than ourselves, without some degree of malignity, we commonly look downward on the mean and miserable with sufficient benevolence and pity. ~

Henry Fielding

~ Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick ~

Abigail Van Buren

~ With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. ~

Lope de Vega

~ I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. ~

Susan Sontag

~ Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation ~

Montaigne

~ Envy eats nothing but its own heart ~

German Proverb

~ Envy eats nothing but its own heart ~

German Proverb

~ Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good actions, like as fire eateth up and burneth wood ~

Muhammad

~ Envy is an insult to oneself. ~

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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