#envious

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself. ↗

— Lloyd Bridges

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That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World. ↗

— William Petty

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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Envy yearns to find flaws. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

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I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time. ↗

— Jack McCollough

#bunch #envious #free #free time #hiatus

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#am #country #covet #envious #glory

Once she was standing by her locker and her puka shells broke and scattered and she made a joke about it but he could tell she was upset. He wanted to buy her some more. He wanted to give her a million strands of little nesting polished shells, and tropical flowers and ice creams and lemonades and a pale blue surfboard to teach her to surf on and anything else she wanted. Instead he let his checkered Vans step on one of the rolling shells and crush it. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#envy #jealous #jealousy #jealousy

People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an image of who they wish they had become. Don't hate them back because they may also become like you one day and it will mean hurting that image you carry! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#enviousness #envy #food-for-thought #hate #haters