#envy

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#beauty

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#bit #could #creatures #did #envy

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#god #i #me #my own #oh

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#angry #deserved #envy #ingredients #justice

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#authors #competition #dead #envy #living

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#dumb people #envy #i #i think #over

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. ↗

— Dave Freudenthal

#action #before #believe #broad #charted

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#destroy #envy #never #never underestimate #power

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

— Joseph Epstein

#envy #i #insidious #may #most

Envy is a buzz killer." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#jealousy #r-alan-woods #jealousy