Top Envy Quotes
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
Envy aims very high.
Ovid
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
Francis Beaumont
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
Dustin Hoffman
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Xun Zi 
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Samuel Richardson All Envy Quotes
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca 
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There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.
Jim Jeffords
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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
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Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
Eubie Blake
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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
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Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.
Gustav Stresemann
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I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
Joe Orton
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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Francois de La RochefoucauldJohann Wolfgang von GoetheVictor HugoLucius Annaeus SenecaWinston Churchill AristotleWilliam Hazlitt Ovid Horace AeschylusEmile M. CioranElbert HubbardTheodore RooseveltJosh BillingsSamuel Richardson
Simone WeilJim RohnBaltasar GracianSusan Sontag BuddhaBen KingsleyErich FrommHenry FieldingHeinrich HeineOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Mike Krzyzewski SallustThomas HobbesPaul GettyXun Zi
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