Envy Quotes

All envy is proportionate to desire.

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'

Envy is the basis of democracy.

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

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.

Congratulations is the civility of envy.

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.

Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.

There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is still the envy of less happy lands.

Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.

Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I."

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.

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

The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

The living will envy the dead.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

The envious will die, but envy never.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.

Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all... be happy just the way you are.

Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.

I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.

He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.

Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.