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

Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

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

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

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

Envy shoots at others and wounds itself

English Proverb

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

Josh Billings

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

Aeschylus

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 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

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

Harold Coffin

Envy eats nothing but its own heart

German Proverb

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

Francis Bacon, Sr.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

Saint John Chrysostom

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