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I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

I envy the dead.

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Envy aims very high.

A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.