Envy Quotes

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand and tramples upon temptations.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

I hate fishes, they all look so miserable. 3 seconds later they will forget. And then I envy them.

What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at.

Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

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.

Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.

Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or "mathematics envy."

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

Not praising the deserving prevents envy.

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It's only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we can move forward.

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.

A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

Envy is human nature.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

The most destructive criticism is indifference.

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.