Envy Quotes

I'm emotionless, yet I breathe jealousy and envy People kill for me or die to defend me

We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but the desire to equal others is a sign of envy.

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.

Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.

It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?

Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.

The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country. The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process.

We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me; For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy.

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

There is no love; There are only the various envies, all of them sad.

Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.

Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

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.

Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.

Some people suffer from the green-eyed monster called envy.

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.

A lot of people don't understand how a lot of money is being made. There's a combination of fear related to that, envy, distrust that gets filtered into that.

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

In a boom, envy; in a bust, anger.

What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.