Envy Quotes

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

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

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

I almost envy people who say whatever they want.

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.

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

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.

Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.

Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.

I tell you what I envy about people in love - I'd love it if someone knew me I mean really knew me. What I like what I'm afraid of what kind of toothpaste I use." - Rose Morgan

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.

Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

Far less envy in America than in France.

avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.