E Quotes
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“Envy makes you groan and COMPLAIN,
Always wondering, “Why them — not ME?”
Envy fills you with bitterness and PAIN.
Envy is the soul’s most dangerous ENEMY.”
“Envy masks itself as fondness. The jealous like to get close so it’s easy to strike.”
Source: Tom Collins: A 'Slightly Crooked' Novel
“Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.”
“Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.”
“Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)”
Source: We Never Talk about My Brother
“Envy not but enjoy.”
“Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.”
Source: Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor
“Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.”
“Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.”
“Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.”
“Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".”
Source: The Thomas Sowell Reader
“Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?”
“Envy suggests inferiority.”
“Envy the kangaroo. That pouch setup is extraordinary; the baby crawls out of the womb when it is about two inches long, gets into the pouch, and proceeds to mature. I'd have a baby if it would develop in my handbag.”
“Envy was just the tax you paid on success.”
Source: One Day
“Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)
“Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue”
Source: Essay on Man and Other Poems
“Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.”
Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete
“Envy yearns to find flaws.”
“Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Envy's a sharper spur than pay.”
“Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:
“Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.”
Source: Perfect Match
“envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.”
Source: The limit
“Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren’t happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.”
“Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.”
“Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion.
Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.”
“Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.”
“Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.”
“Envy, like flames, soars upwards.”
Source: Livy
“Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple”
Source: A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By
“Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.”
“Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through pride, sinned also through envy, envying our glory, our happiness. Why do we envy the happiness and the goods of others? Because we are proud; we should like to be the sole possessors of talents, riches, of the esteem and love of all the world! We hate our equals, because they are our equals; our inferiors, from the fear that they may equal us; our superiors, because they are above us.”
“Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.”
“ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.”
Source: The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)
“Envy, slothful vice,
Never makes its way in lofty characters,
But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls
Close to the ground.”
“Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.”
“Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.”
“Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.”
Source: Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion
“Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Envy-Thy art blindness”
“Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.”
“Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.”
“Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.”
“Enya never writes a bad melody. That's first and foremost her secret. As she goes along, she'll start changing the dynamics, pushing here and there so that not everything is perfectly in unison. It adds a texture you can acquire only from having different voices. The variations lead to interesting quirks. It's an integral part of the Enya sound.”
“Enyo spoke to her sisters:
"They're getting worse."
"Demi-Gods?" Sthennos asked.
"Men.”
Source: Medusa
“Enzo enters with a sweep of dark robes, bringing with him the scent of wind, night, and death.”
Source: The Young Elites