Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not
imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
-William
Arthur Ward
Don't expect praise without envy, until you're dead.
-Joan Rivers
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it.
We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
-William
Hazlitt
Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in
its effort to escape.
-Angus Wilson
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your
own.
-Harold Coffin
Envy is the basis of democracy.
-Bertrand Russell
Envy is the central fact of American life.
-Gore Vidal
Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an
action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in
freedom and never as a result of compulsion.
-Erich Fromm
Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an
excuse; envy alone wants both. Other sins last but for awhile; the gut
may be satisfied, anger remits, hatred hath an end, envy never ceaseth.
-Robert
Burton
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us- avarice, ambition, envy, anger,
and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy
perpetual peace.
-Petrarch
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely
idealizing envy- I don't disparage envy but I don't accept it as
legitimately my master.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape
of a boomerang.
-Charley Reese
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend
who has prospered.
-Aeschylus
Like Satan, envy doesn't want us to know it exists.
-Christopher
Manion
Malice and envy are but two branches growing out of the same bitter
root. Self-love and evil-speaking are the fruit they hear. Malice is
properly the procuring or wishing another's evil; envy, the repining at
his good. And these vent themselves by evil-speaking.
-Robert
Leighton
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
-Charles
Bukowski
The envious will die, but envy never.
-Molière (Jean-Baptiste
Poquelin)
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
-Margaret
Thatcher
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive
feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted
out under the guise of virtue.
-Erich Fromm
Unjust criticism is often a disguised compliment. It often means that
you have aroused jealousy and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a
dead dog.
-Dale Carnegie
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
-Henry
Fielding
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