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

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

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

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.