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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Jim Jeffords All Envy Quotes
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 
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Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
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On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.
David Duchovny
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I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.
Deidre Hall
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
John Berger
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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Erich Fromm
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Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
Joseph Epstein
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I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.
Cary Elwes
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Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Heinrich Heine
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Simone WeilJim RohnBaltasar GracianSusan Sontag BuddhaBen KingsleyErich FrommHenry FieldingHeinrich HeineOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Mike Krzyzewski SallustThomas HobbesPaul GettyXun Zi
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