Zora Neale Hurston
Novelist, Anthropologist
"An envious heart makes a treacherous ear."
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Envious
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Jeaniene Frost
Author
"I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy."
T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious."
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"The envious will die, but envy never."
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"The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious."
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"The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]"
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"To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind."
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"The silence of the envious is too noisy."
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"The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise."
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"It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else."
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"The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability."
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"That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do."
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