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 othe...
Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
Elwood P. Dowd: That's envy my dear, there's a little bit of envy in the best of us.
They all behaved as if they were absolutely disgusted by this, and amid the ribbing and hilarity that this elaborate performance of disgust and envy produced they were able to hide their true feelings of disgust and envy.
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
L'humanité sera condamnée le jour où les humains n'auront plus envie de se surpasser. Aussi, vous tous qui m'écoutez, posez-vous cette question : « Mais au fait, qu'est-ce qui me donne envie de me lever le matin pour entreprendre des choses ? Qu...
Kiss the hand of your enemy if you cannot chop it off: Envy has no rest.
Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
Saying of the Prophet Envy Envy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.
Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasures and made his life hateful.
Often change yourself, when you see that people envy you : they will start to change themselves too, but at that time YOU will not envy them...
One measures the towers by their shadows and great people by those who envy them.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
Now envy and antipathy, passions irreconcilable in reason, nevertheless in fact may spring conjoined like Chang and Eng in one birth. Is Envy then such a monster? Well, though many an arraigned mortal has in hopes of mitigated penalty pleaded guilty ...
Sylvia rarely flattered the men in her life- she envied them. She was far more likely to compete with a man than a woman. In her journal she describes this jealousy of which she is painfully aware; "It is an envy born of the desire to be active and d...
If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.
If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.
Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.
I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying him that a little, which was perfectly normal. There was no harm in envying even your best friend a little
