Envy

"Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion."

Rumi

Envy

Happiness

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"There may be love without jealousy, but there is none without fear."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Envy

Love

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had."

Erica Jong "Fear of Flying"

Envy

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."

Heraclitus Of Ephesus

Envy

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Harold Coffin

Envy

Rating: 5.17 (Number of Voters: 6)

"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

Envy

Richness and Money

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Jealousy is the injured lover's hell."

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Envy

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Writers are as jealous as pigeons."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Art and Culture

Envy

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Agnieszka Lisak

Defeates and Mistakes

Envy

Success and Fame

Rating: 5.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Envy

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Franz Grillparzer "Poems"

Anger

Envy

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Zach Braff

Envy

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Françoise Sagan "La Chamade"

Envy

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Aldous Huxley "Brave New World"

Envy

Happiness

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Envy

Love

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Envy

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Jules Renard

Defeates and Mistakes

Envy

Success and Fame

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Arthur Chapman

Envy

Rating: 7.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

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Envy

Rating: 6.17 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Robert Bringle

Envy

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Bible

Envy

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Oscar Levant

Envy

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"It is better to be envied than pitied."

Herodotus

Envy

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice"."

Thomas Sowell

Envy

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Gene Fowler

Envy

Success and Fame

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Envy

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

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Envy

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Gore Vidal

Envy

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Envy is the basis of democracy."

Bertrand Russell "Conquest of Happiness"

Envy

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Wisdom is more to be envied than riches."

English Proverbs

Envy

Richness and Money

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Envy

Happiness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Miguel de Unamuno

Envy

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Mark Twain "Following the Equator"

Envy

Richness and Money

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Mark Twain

Envy

Love

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 8)

"Congratulation, n. The civility of envy."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Envy

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

François de La Rochefoucauld

Envy

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Envy

Marriage

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Envy

Forgiveness

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

François de La Rochefoucauld

Egoism

Envy

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Josh Billings

Envy

Love

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Envy

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."

Socrates

Envy

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 4)