Envy Quotes - Page 13

• Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple

  Og Mandino

  Apples, Worms

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.115, Bantam

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• Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Regret, War

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

  Francis Bacon

  Affection, Has Beens

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• The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Daggers, Sometimes, Pity

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• Some people suffer from the green-eyed monster called envy.

  Ana Monnar

  People, Suffering, Monsters

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• By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

  George Bancroft

  Respect, Hair, Crowns

  George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.75

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• My heart laments that virtue cannot live
  Out of the teeth of emulation.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Teeth, Emulation

  William Shakespeare, Ad Brown (1850). “Julius Caesar ... With explanatory French notes, by Ad. Brown. Improved with a copious selection of notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Theobald, Warburton, etc”, p.101

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• Envy is a kind of praise.

  John Gay

  Kind, Praise

  John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.76

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• Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jealousy, Soul, Humans

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• There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Ignorance, Men

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• I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

  Voltaire

  Ignorance, Animal, Two

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• After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

  Mason Cooley

  Temples, Glory, Chained

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• Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Calumny Is, Gossip, Offspring

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• I think envy motivates a lot of people.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Thinking, People

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• They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Kissing, Want, Effie Trinket

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.71, Scholastic Inc.

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• Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

  Anna Godbersen

  Heart, Stopping, Flattery

  Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards -- their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble -- the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when He sees us coming with our books under our arms, "Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Reading, Names

  Virginia Woolf (1972). “Collected essays”

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• Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Cutting, Two, Common

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1995). “Recollections: the French Revolution of 1848”, p.98, Transaction Publishers

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• Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Years, Judging, Empathy

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• Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd

  William Blake

  Race, Different Faces, Looks

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.149, Wordsworth Editions

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• Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years shown a shred of compassion for sympathy or kindness without calculating how it would return to your advantage. You have tortured and killed without regret or hesitation; you have betrayed and intrigued and gloried in your treachery. You are a cess-pit of moral filth.

  Philip Pullman

  Kindness, Regret, Compassion

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.

  Khalil Gibran

  Hate, Praise, Belittle

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Passion, Hatred, Lines

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• The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see others having fun. They don’t understand that no one is having fun, that everyone is worried and insecure, and that what the jewels, cars, and fat wallets conceal is a huge inferiority complex.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fun, Pain, Insecure

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• These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

  Martin Amis

  Pride, Boredom, Insecurity

  Martin Amis (1981). “Other people: a mystery story”, Jonathan Cape

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