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Category: Envy

1. "Envy is the art of counting the other fellow`s blessings instead of your own."

Harold Coffin

2. "Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like."

Will Rogers

Quotations about: Richness and Money

3. "Jealousy is the injured lover's hell."

Anon.

4. "Writers are as jealous as pigeons."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Quotations about: Art and Culture

5. "What hurts much more than own failures are someone else's successes."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Success and Fame

6. "The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

7. "Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief."

Franz Grillparzer, "Poems"

Quotations about: Anger

8. "I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading."

Zach Braff

9. "To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."

Françoise Sagan, "La Chamade"

10. "Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness."

Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World"

Quotations about: Happiness

11. "Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity."

Margaret Mead

Quotations about: Love

12. "Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

13. "Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."

Jules Renard

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Success and Fame

14. "Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores."

Arthur Chapman

15. "The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy."

Anon.

16. "Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want."

Robert Bringle

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

17. "Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him."

Bible

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

18. "I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on."

Oscar Levant

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

19. "It is better to be envied than pitied."

Herodotus

20. "Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice"."

Thomas Sowell

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21. "What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins."

Gene Fowler

Quotations about: Success and Fame

22. "In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy."

Ivan Illich, "Tools for Conviviality"

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

23. "Blowing out another's candle will not make yours shine brighter."

Anon.

24. "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."

Gore Vidal

Quotations about: Success and Fame

25. "Envy is the basis of democracy."

Bertrand Russell, "Conquest of Happiness"

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

26. "Wisdom is more to be envied than riches."

English proverb

Quotations about: Richness and Money -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

27. "Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Happiness

28. "Envy is a thousand times worse than hunger, since it is hunger of the spirit."

Miguel de Unamuno

29. "Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean."

Mark Twain, "Following the Equator"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

30. "Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied."

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Love

31. "Congratulation, n. The civility of envy."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

32. "Jealousy is always born with love but does not always die with it."

François de La Rochefoucauld

33. "Sometimes it is pleasant for a husband to have a jealous wife: he always hears what he loves being talked about."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Marriage

34. "The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."

Elbert Green Hubbard, "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

Quotations about: Forgiveness

35. "In jealousy there is more of self-love than love."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Egoism

36. "Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."

Josh Billings

Quotations about: Love

37. "Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I"."

Alexis de Tocqueville

38. "Envy is the ulcer of the soul."

Socrates


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