What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of the human heart were to vanish….
There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy..
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them..
I think envy motivates a lot of people..
Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you!.
The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence..
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished….
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 thei….
The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, ….
"There aint nothin gonna stop me so just envy it".
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach..
To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but ha….
You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the mo….
In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the ….
I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss..
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 ….
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearni….
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 achiev….
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang..
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the a….
Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation..