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
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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
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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A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
Xun Zi 
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle
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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
Samuel Richardson
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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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Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Roger Tory Peterson
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Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
Arthur Chapman
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To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
Emile M. Cioran
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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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A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
Bill Owens
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Popular Envy Authors
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 HobbesTitus LiviusXun Zi
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