Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
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Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING It's a curious thing that the mental life seems to flourish with its roots in spite, ineffable and f...
D.H. LAWRENCE By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J...
GARY OLDMAN We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves
And spend our flatteries to drink those men
Upon ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Or is it that slow paced evil creeps in when it espies and envies happiness, and then takes a delibe...
LESLIE W.P. GARLAND If only you could see the greatness in yourself, you wouldn't envy the greatness in others.
SUZY KASSEM Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby
Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
GEORGE HERBERT I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Your heart—as you call it—and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. Th...
SARAH WATERS If you would have fought like a man you wouldn't have to die like a dog."
(Anne Bonny to John "...
ANNE BONNY I would never do anything just for spite.
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred ...
ROBERT LUDLUM My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite.
NATSUO KIRINO Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hur...
J.M. BARRIE I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat l...
JANET FITCH Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.
CRISS JAMI I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
HOLLY BLACK in spite of the terrorism, in spite of the threats.
HAMID KARZAI We had a script reading, and that's where we met J.K. Rowling, which was really exciting.
RUPERT GRINT A world of envy, lies and omission breeds insecurity and sadness with little chance of building a fr...
THEODORE WALTER FEDORCHAK Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HERACLITUS Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Those who kow-towed to the prosecution and denounced the Nazi regime got it in the neck just the sam...
HERMAN GOERING when you hate a girl because she gets to kiss the boy you like, any little imperfection can become a...
WENDY BRANT To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow...
ANTON CHEKHOV In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.
CHIN-NING CHU Draco: "Hermione Granger, I’m being bossed around by Hermione Granger."
— J.K. Rowling (Ha...
J.K. ROWLING LDraco: "Hermione Granger, I’m being bossed around by Hermione Granger."
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J.K. ROWLING There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly ...
C. JOYBELL C. Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
JOHN GAY Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise.
For envy is a kind of praise.
JOHN GAY Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of praise
JOHN GAY In spite of God's love for you, in spite of the spirit filling, in spite of your ability to speak in...
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BARBARA MARCUS I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' f...
LEV GROSSMAN Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Compete, don't envy
ARABIAN PROVERB Envy suggests inferiority.
WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN The artist envies what the arties gains,
The bard the rival bard's successful strains.
HESIOD Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
HENRY FIELDING I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Envy, like fire, soars upward.
[Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.]
TITUS LIVY It is in the character if very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
AESCHYLUS Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Envy eats nothing but its own heart
GERMAN PROVERB The envious will die, but envy never.
[Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave,
Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
ALEXANDER POPE If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be
regarded as envious and ill-natur...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Envy shoots at others and wounds itself
ENGLISH PROVERB You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Base envy withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
JAMES THOMSON (1) No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.
[Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire ...
TITUS LIVY Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has somet...
FRANK TYGER But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage
A woman's envy?
GEORGE GRANVILLE, LORD LANDSDOWNE Envy's a sharper spur than pay:
No author ever spar'd a brother;
Wits are gamecocks to one ano...
JOHN GAY Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.
[Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi
Nulla potest placare q...
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) With that malignant envy which turns pale,
And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
HAROLD COFFIN Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely...
KAREN BRADEMEYER Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
GORE VIDAL The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy.
ANONYMOUS I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
OSCAR LEVANT To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.
ANNA GODBERSEN Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rot...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
ARTHUR CHAPMAN It is better to be envied than pitied.
HERODOTUS ("FATHER OF HISTORY") Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under
the influence of the evil eye.
[La...
JACOPO SANNAZARO (SANNAZARIUS) The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.
FRANCOIS, DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Envy! eldest-born of hell!
CHARLES JENNENS OF GOPSALL Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
OLD TESTAMENT If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not b...
YOUNG Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores
ARTHUR CHAPMAN Envy is honors foe.
MOTTO Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,
Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can--
No...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My mind gave me,
In seeking tales and informations
Against this man, whose honesty the devil
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Such men as he be never at heart's ease
Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,
And ther...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The general's disdained
By him one step below, he by the next,
The next by him beneath; so eve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as
little dogs do at strangers.
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Envy will merit as its shade pursue,
But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
ALEXANDER POPE The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than
envy was devised by Sicilian tyrant...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.
[Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest
peaks.
[Lat., Summa petit livor: pe...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.
[Lat., Pascitur in vivis livor; post fata...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.
MARK TWAIN Im going to use you and abuse you a distortion of the truth!
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER The blind envy the one-eyed
JUVENAL The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inh...
VOLTAIRE Envy is like flame which scorch the wisdom of innerself. Envy reflects lack of belief in self.It wil...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA My classmates envy me because I can use a computer twice a week as a member of the IT training group...
LIANG YANFANG Envy is insult of own self.One who envies never have own peace of mind.Flame of envy burns inner pea...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own...
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J.K. ROWLING We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. ~Albus Dumbledore
J.K. ROWLING I just wondered where you —” Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.” J.K. ROWLING He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everythin...
J.K. ROWLING Completely forgetting about dinner, he walked slowly back up to Gryffindor tower. Cho's voice echoin...
J.K. ROWLING She’s a veela!” he said hoarsely to Harry.
“Of course she isn’t!” said Hermion...
J.K. ROWLING I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I wa...
J.K. ROWLING He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here lik...
J.K. ROWLING You know your mother, Malfoy?” said Harry “That expression she’s got, like she’s got ...
J.K. ROWLING I hate being poor.
J.K. ROWLING As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.
J.K. ROWLING Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don�...
J.K. ROWLING Play to your strengths."
"I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself....
J.K. ROWLING Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!
J.K. ROWLING No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had e...
J.K. ROWLING She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.
J.K. ROWLING You’re JOKING!” said Fred Weasley loudly.
The tension that had filled the Hall ever since M...
J.K. ROWLING Yeah you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Good-bye.
J.K. ROWLING Oh, shut up Weatherby.
J.K. ROWLING Hello, Professor McGonagall,” said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher.
“What �...
J.K. ROWLING He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "...
J.K. ROWLING Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sur...
J.K. ROWLING Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,' said the Ministry wizard, and he bran...
J.K. ROWLING Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin...
J.K. ROWLING Well, I’m sure you’ll find someone somewhere who’ll have you.
J.K. ROWLING Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid.
"You don't think anything ...
J.K. ROWLING Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being bor...
J.K. ROWLING Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick h...
J.K. ROWLING She should've interviewed Snape," said Harry grimly. "He'd give her the goods on me any day. "Pot...
J.K. ROWLING But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new light.
“Hermione...
J.K. ROWLING I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memor...
J.K. ROWLING Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.
J.K. ROWLING I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.
J.K. ROWLING You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
J.K. ROWLING I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the sh...
J.K. ROWLING We're coming or you whether the Muggles like it or not, you can't miss the World Cup, only Mum and D...
J.K. ROWLING Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow...."
"I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily eno...
J.K. ROWLING Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and wha...
J.K. ROWLING I love magic!
J.K. ROWLING Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn,...
J.K. ROWLING Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even t...
J.K. ROWLING He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him...
J.K. ROWLING Potter wasn't such an unusual name. He was sure there were lots of people called Potter who had a so...
J.K. ROWLING I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book
J.K. ROWLING Wandering around at midnight, Ickle Firsties? Tut, tut, tut. Naughty, naughty, you'll get caughty.
J.K. ROWLING Shooting stars all over Britain? Owls flying by daylight? Mysterious people in cloaks all over the p...
J.K. ROWLING Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Un...
J.K. ROWLING Why do you live?
Because I have something worth living for.
J.K. ROWLING I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan mail.
. . . Gladys G...
J.K. ROWLING Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Ver...
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