Envy Quotes

Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.

I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

A competitive society is a society of envy.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

I think I would envy me too, if I didn't know me better.

The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]

Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.

Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

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.

Envy is the religion of the mediocre

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?'

If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.

Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence and focus, and they pay for this later in life.

The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.

The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

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

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

The cheap but simple human emotion of envy is the driving force of all socialism, of all anti-capitalist philosophy. It is the mark of the intellectual.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

I think envy motivates a lot of people.

People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.

There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those who believe, by those who don't believe.

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?

The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.