Quotes about envy

"He who goes unenvied shall not be admired."

Aeschylus on envy   

"As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion."

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

Bacon, Francis on envy
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"The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power."

Berger, John on envy
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"Envy and wrath shorten the life. [Ecclesiasticus]"

Bible on envy
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"Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks."

Browne, Sir Thomas on envy
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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

Cicero, Marcus T. on envy
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"Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on envy
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"Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of."

Fielding, Henry on envy   

"Nothing sharpens sight like envy."

Fuller, Thomas on envy
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"Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise."

Gay, John on envy
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"Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on envy
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"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."

Gracian, Baltasar on envy
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"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."

Harper, Ralph on 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."

Hazlitt, William on envy   

"How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied."

Herodotus on envy
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"All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession."

Hogarth, William on envy   

"He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living."

Horace on envy   

"His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises."

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"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on envy
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"It is not enough to succeed, others must fail."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on envy
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"Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on envy
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"There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of ones fellow man."

Marx, Groucho on envy
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"Envy is honors foe."

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"Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him."

Ovid on envy
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"Envy aims very high."

Ovid on envy
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"Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself."

Proverb, Danish on envy
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"Envy eats nothing, but its own heart."

Proverb, German on envy
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"They that envy others are their inferiors."

Saying on envy
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"Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."

Shakespeare, William on envy
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"The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor."

Socrates on envy
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"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied."

Twain, Mark on envy
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"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."

Vidal, Gore on envy
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"If you look to the lives of others, you’ll always find yourself lacking. Look instead at what you have, and be grateful."

Unknown, Source on envy