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Envy Quotes
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All envy is proportionate to desire.

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

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.

Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?
 share this Envy saying   Karen Brademeyer

You can't be envious and happy at the same time

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

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead
 share this Envy saying   Mark Twain

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores
 share this Envy saying   Arthur Chapman

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
 share this Envy saying   Titus Livy

Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.
 share this Envy saying   Robert Lembke

Have you noticed that weak people are the ones who delight to show you how weak you are, while, at the same time, strong people are the ones who delight to show you how strong you are?

Bless the upward hearts who find all war, all envy, and all regret to be unacceptable, especially inside themselves.

Envy is ignorance. Imitation is suicide.

Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
 share this Envy saying   Voltaire

With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.

Envy! eldest-born of hell!
 share this Envy saying   Charles Jennens of Gopsall

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.
 share this Envy saying   Titus Livy

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.
 share this Envy saying   Ovid

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.
 share this Envy saying   Ovid

Nothing sharpens sight like envy

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
 share this Envy saying   Gore Vidal

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

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