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I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant
(1906 - 1972)

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant
(1906 - 1972)

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC)

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Horace, Odes
Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC)

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

William Shakespeare, "King Richard II", Act 2 scene 1
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Russian author & dissident in US (1918 - )

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

Sallust
Roman historian & politician (86 BC - 34 BC)

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson, Rambler #18
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant
(1906 - 1972)

If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.

Young

There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all.

Author Unknown

There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.

C. C. Colton

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