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"Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat."
— Bill Watterson

tags: envy, humor

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"There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale."
— Anna Godbersen (The Luxe)

tags: envy

26 people liked it

"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. "
— Carrie Fisher

tags: envy, jealousy, resentment, spite

25 people liked it

"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: envy

11 people liked it

"Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires."
— Laozi

tags: detachment, envy, greed, illusions, selfishness, simplicity

9 people liked it

"The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.
Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: anger, connection, culture, discrimination, envy, humanity, man, prejudicism, race

9 people liked it

"He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time. (Envy)"
— Anna Godbersen

tags: envy, men, pain, running

6 people liked it

"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
— Malachy McCourt

tags: envy, hatred, poison, resentment

3 people liked it

"Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had."
— Jodi Picoult (Perfect Match:A Novel)

tags: envy, ethical, grief, jodi, life, match, moral, perfect, picoult, ran

3 people liked it

"There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more."
— Joseph Heller

tags: bitterness, envy

2 people liked it

"They envy the distinction I have won; let them, therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it."
— Sallust

tags: envy

1 person liked it

"Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded."
— William Haslitt, Characteristics, 1823

tags: envy

1 person liked it

"Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own."
— Harold G. Coffin

tags: envy

1 person liked it

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

tags: envy, equality, liberty

1 person liked it

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