Envy Quotes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

A person worth envying is a person who doesn't envy

Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.

The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

Your body is woven from the light of heaven. Are you aware that its purity and swiftness is the envy of angels and its courage keeps even devils away.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

Merit challenges envy.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!

Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple

My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then having the nerve to accuse conservatives of hatred.