Envy Quotes - Page 25

• It stirs up envy, fame does.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Doe, Fame

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• One reason why so many people are unhappy, not knowing why, is that they have burdened their minds with resentments. These evil thoughts pile right on top of happier and generous ones and smother them so that they never get expression. Resentments are a form of hate.... What a dearth of good will and co-operation there are among human beings and nations! What a world this would be if we all worked together, and as a popular diplomat recently expressed it-played together!

  George Matthew Adams

  Hate, Expression, Knowing

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• I gotta tell you, I do not envy whoever they try to put in David Letterman's chair. Folks those are some huge shoes to fill, and some really big pants.

  Stephen Colbert

  Leadership, Work, Shoes

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• By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.

  Florence King

  Equality, America, Government

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• The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.

  Anthony Storr

  Jealousy, Loss, Thinking

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• When envy lies within a woman's heart it cuts into her soul & gives her a toxic spirit. It is truly something to be disgusted by. I have experienced it so much in my own life that I can sense the energy of envy without any communication from the other person. It lingers in the air to pollute your environment. Envy is a brutal force of bad vibes sucking the love right out of your heart.

  Bindu

  Lying, Communication, Heart

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• Dead men may envy living mites in cheese,
  Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,
  And subdivide, and never come to death.

  Wilfred Owen

  Death, Men, Joy

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.65, New Directions Publishing

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• And I envy the intransigence of my own
  Countrymen who shoot to kill and never
  See the victim's face become their own
  Or find his motive sabotage their motives.

  Louis MacNeice

  Faces, Killing, Victim

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.93, Faber & Faber

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• People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.

  Emily Eden

  Jealousy, Real, Hard Work

  Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.8

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• Take two kids in competition for their parents' love and attention. Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other; the resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other; the personal frustrations that they don't dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister, and it's not hard to understand why in families across the land, the sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.

  Adele Faber

  Brother, Children, Sibling

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• From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient. From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility. From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful. From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise. And sometimes, from their envy of each other's special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.

  Adele Faber

  Clever, Sibling, Struggle

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• You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life.

  Anna Camp

  Compare

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• How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Hate, Fall

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Brave, Suffering

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1367, Delphi Classics

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• A beautiful woman peers out her window, as full of envy as the harridan who peers up at her from the street.

  Mason Cooley

  Beautiful, Peers, Window

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• All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the best state of fortune that is neither directly necessitous nor far from it. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy; which is a desirable condition; for no man wants power to do mischief.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Mind, Desire

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• The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, World, Bears

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• In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Reign, Virtue, Liberality

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1749). “The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish of Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra. By Charles Jarvis Esq; ...”, p.441

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• If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Blood, Acting, Causes

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• Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.

  Josh Billings

  Twins, Rivalry

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• I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

  Thomas Browne

  Knowledge, Men, Pity

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.121

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• There is no love;
  There are only the various envies, all of them sad.

  W. H. Auden

  Sadness, Various, No Love

  'In Praise of Limestone' (1951) l. 58

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• envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.

  Margaret of Valois

  Hate, Eye, Hatred

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• I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Cages, Noble

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 27

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• More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

  Walter E. Williams

  Wise, Class, Important

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