Envious Quotes - Page 10

• Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.

  John Stott

  Vanity, Envy, Coins

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, p.57, InterVarsity Press

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• Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.

  Peter Carey

  Cheer, Mean, Close Friends

  2002 In the Observer, 18 Aug.

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• Im always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

  Jaime Ray Newman

  Fun, Character, Roots

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• An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

  Horace

  Men, Fatness, Grows

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• The envious will die, but envy never.
  [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]

  Moliere

  Envy, Dies

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• Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

  Larry Rivers

  Jealousy, Littles, Boring

  Larry Rivers, Marlborough Gallery (2005). “Larry Rivers: paintings and drawings: 1951-2001 ; May 3-June 4, 2005”, Marlborough Gallery

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• I'm envious of the way that electronic dance music has organised itself. It has been able to understand what it ain't rather than what it is. And I think that slipped away from hip-hop as soon as the DJs lost the majority of the say so in the direction of the music.

  Chuck D

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Majority

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