Envy Quotes

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

I envy people who could just have one drink and not go look for cocaine afterwards.

Envy does not allow humanity to sleep.

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.

To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

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

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

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

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

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

The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

I'm not envious of Leo [Messi]or Ney [Neymar]. Why would I be? If there is envy in the dressing room, you know it's only going to affect results.

the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.

Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

Envy derives from insecurity.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

Congratulations is the civility of envy.

Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.

The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.

God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was.

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.