Envy Quotes
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. (Quote by - Harold Coffin)
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart, like a viper in its hole. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. (Quote by - Francis Bacon, Sr.)
I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. (Quote by - Christopher Marlowe)
The envious will die, but envy never. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere)
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. (Quote by - Ovid)
Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock. Abraham's riches were the Philistines' envy; and Jacob's blessing bred Esau's hatred. (Quote by - J. Beaumont)
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad. (Quote by - Tacitus)
You can't be envious and happy at the same time (Quote by - Frank Tyger)
Envy is honors foe. (Quote by - Motto)
Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
Nothing sharpens sight like envy (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. (Quote by - Horace)
It was well said that envy keeps no holidays. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good actions, like as fire eateth up and burneth wood (Quote by - Muhammad)
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. (Quote by - Marcus T Cicero)
Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves. (Quote by - Ralph Harper)
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. (Quote by - Buddha)
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
Envy is ignorance. Imitation is suicide. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou her maid art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious. Her vestal livery is but sick and green, And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. (Quote by - Seneca)
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor will feel a pleasure in the reverse; and those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues are happy if others can be depressed to a level with themselves. (Quote by - John Marshall Barker)
Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other. (Quote by - Mevlana Rumi)
Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. (Quote by - Ovid)
Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. (Quote by - Claudian)
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself (Quote by - Helmut Schoeck)
No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. (Quote by - Titus Livy)
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. (Quote by - Dennis Prager)
Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue (Quote by - Titus Livy)
But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage A woman's envy? (Quote by - George Granville, Lord Landsdowne)
Bless the upward hearts who find all war, all envy, and all regret to be unacceptable, especially inside themselves. (Quote by - Laura Teresa Marquez)
We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion. (Quote by - Mevlana Rumi)
If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured? (Quote by - Horace)
Envy eats nothing but its own heart (Quote by - German Proverb)
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. (Quote by - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn)
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
The general's disdained By him one step below, he by the next, The next by him beneath; so every step, Exampled by the first pace that is sick Of his superior, grows to an envious fever Of pale and bloodless emulation: And 'tis this fever that keeps Troy on foot, Not her own sinews. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. (Quote by - Fulton J. Sheen)
Envy shoots at others and wounds itself (Quote by - English Proverb)
When men are full of envy, they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad (Quote by - Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can-- No, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness Of thy sharp envy. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Envy! eldest-born of hell! (Quote by - Charles Jennens of Gopsall)
Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. (Quote by - Jacopo Sannazaro)
When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice. (Quote by - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux)
No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Envy is an insult to oneself. (Quote by - Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate. (Quote by - Epictetus)
It is better to be envied than pitied. (Quote by - Herodotus)
My mind gave me, In seeking tales and informations Against this man, whose honesty the devil And his disciples only envy at, Ye blew the fire that burns ye: now have at ye! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned. (Quote by - Robert Lembke)
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach. (Quote by - James Thomson 1)
Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead. (Quote by - Ovid)
The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. (Quote by - Hesiod)
There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart. (Quote by - Claude Arien Helvetius)
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession. (Quote by - William Hogarth)
Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. (Quote by - George Herbert)
I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. (Quote by - Aeschylus )
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. (Quote by - Arthur Chapman)
Have you noticed that weak people are the ones who delight to show you how weak you are, while, at the same time, strong people are the ones who delight to show you how strong you are? (Quote by - Laura Teresa Marquez)
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances. (Quote by - Jeremy Collier)
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. (Quote by - Antisthenes)
All envy is proportionate to desire. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. (Quote by - John Gay)
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. (Quote by - François de La Rochefoucauld)
I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on. (Quote by - Oscar Levant)
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another. (Quote by - John Gay)
Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely? (Quote by - Karen Brademeyer)
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. (Quote by - Herodotus)
Those who raise envy will easily incur censure. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
