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Envy Quotes - Page 27

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.23

Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

'Fables' (1727) 'The Elephant and the Bookseller' l. 74

I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.

Holly Black (2013). “The Poison Eaters: and Other Stories”, p.178, Small Beer Press

Envy is the central fact of American life.

Gore Vidal, Richard Peabody, Lucinda Ebersole (2005). “Conversations with Gore Vidal”, p.43, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

"United States of Banana". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2011.