Envy Quotes
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If some talents were withheld, the Withholder knows why. He has done all things well.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I feel blindfolded at sunset.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
— Ben Jonson
There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
— Baltasar Gracian
I envy the happiness of others ... I envy the sense of belonging ... I seem always to be remaking myself.
— Richard Eyre
I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.
— George Carlin
The sun loses nothing by allowing the stars to shine.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
This beautiful, wonderful, sexy-as-sin woman is mine. You may look - and seethe with envy - but never touch.
— Olivia Cunning
How can we explain the perpetuity of envya vice which yields no return? — Honore De Balzac
Neither compares nor competes.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
— Thomas A Kempis
I envy people who could just have one drink and not go look for cocaine afterwards.
— Felipe Esparza
A man shall never be enriched by envy.
— Thomas Draxe
Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.
— Margaret George
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.
— John Gay
There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
Life is not a competition.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
She didn't sleep much that night. She spent the better part of the night burning with resentment and envy.
— Ira Trivedi
Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.
— Santosh Kalwar
Ambition ... the original of vices;Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer of deceit — Ernest Hemingway,
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
— Arthur Chapman
Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.
— Doris Lessing
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
— Max Beerbohm
Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.
— T. S. Eliot
Envy does not allow humanity to sleep.
— Carl Jung
I arouse desire in men and envy in other women.
— Paulo Coelho
I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f ... happy.
— Noel Gallagher
Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated.
— Jeff Wheeler
Do not envy others. If someone gets a larger piece of cake, be happy for them. They'll get fat and you'll stay thin.
— Frederick Lenz
They hate you when your up but they love you when your down that's why i never give a soul my last pound
— Blanco Vandam
Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
— Eubie Blake
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
— Winston Churchill
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
— Horace
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is under-covered envy.
— Ben Tolosa
The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
— Criss Jami
Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
— Marie Corelli
Envy's a sharper spur than pay.
— John Gay
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
— Honore De Balzac
It's silly to think the left eye would envy the right or that one foot would be jealous of the other, and yet so often it is the case.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
People are so unnecessarily negative about envy. It really ought to be struck off the list of deadly sins.
— David Lagercrantz
There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy.
— Henry Hazlitt
We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
That's how envy works: the better things are, the worse they are, because they don't belong to you.
— William Deresiewicz
The wise will admire you. The wishful will envy you. The weak will hate you. This is the reality for those who dare to be epic.
— Steve Maraboli
The eyes envy the mind.
— Zhuangzi
Yes, the heat lacerated the heart. And alone she resisted it, entire, virgin, the envy of the sea.
— Marguerite Duras
There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate; the more they hate the more you grow.
— Anthony Liccione
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
— Honore De Balzac
The cankered passion of envy is nothing akin to the silly envy of the ass.L'Estrange,Fab.xxxviii.
— Samuel Johnson
Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren't hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love.
— James Richardson
Envy! Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity. Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.
— John R.W. Stott
Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.
— Anthony Liccione
No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.
— Tupac Shakur
Don't blow out someone's candle or you'll both end up in the dark.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.
— Mason Cooley
Why waste your strength envying and hating instead of loving?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future siblings.
— Linda Sunshine
If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves.
— Napoleon Hill
I care not for your envy, or your hypocrisy, or even for your human nature.
— James Fenimore Cooper
Uncle is gone, she wrote instead of all this. And somehow, in some way, I envy him.
— Victoria Aveyard
After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.
— Mason Cooley
When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.
— Nancy Friday
It is better to be envied than pitied.
— Herodotus
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For some reason, the strength and deadliness he keeps so easily leashed make him the most compelling man I've ever met. I envy his self-control.
— Amanda Bouchet
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
— Philip James Bailey
Study says dogs can be green with envy
— Anonymous
When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.
— Marilyn Monroe
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
— Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
I think it's very painful, and that it's better not to have any doubts. I envy those who don't have any; I envy them a lot. They are happy people.
— Nathalie Sarraute
Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.
— Helmut Schoeck
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
— Baron De Montesquieu
The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.
— Rich Mullins
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
