Envy Quotes

Envy aims very high.

— Ovid

Envy suggests inferiority.

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

— Socrates

It stirs up envy, fame does.

— Marilyn Monroe

The eyes envy the mind.

— Zhuangzi

I envy the dead.

— William Mulholland

Merit challenges envy.

— John Dryden

Envy derives from insecurity.

— Igor Babailov

Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.

— Epictetus

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

— Victor Hugo

I don't envy people with long hair. So, I'm glad mine is gone.

— Baron Corbin

The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.

— Brendan Behan

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

— Herodotus

“Be patient; resentment will always reveal itself.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

It is better to want what you have than to have what you want.

— Proverb

There aint nuthin gon stop me so just envy it

— Lil Wayne

Jealousy? I expect that but dont stress that. Making you envy me is what Im best at.

— Anonymous

Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.

— Fanny Fern

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

— Jonathan Sacks

“People don’t always stab you with knives. Sometimes it’s the slow slicing of passive envy.”

— Arabella Sveinsdottir

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

— Walter E. Williams

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

— Albert Pike

As soon as your ex sees you smiling, thats the minute they want you back.

— SHEYA

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the…

— Anonymous

There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those…

— Dennis Prager

I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just…

— Gertrude Jekyll

I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then…

— Allen West

Blessings come in packages of two. With every blessing is a test. So don't ever envy people who seem to have more…

— Yasmin Mogahed

“In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother…

— Mitch Albom

[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and…

— Pierre Charron

The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on…

— Naveen Jain

“There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. It is manifest in…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see…

— Paulo Coelho

He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of…

— Mark Twain

“It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion…

— Samuel Johnson

How beautifully is it ordered, that as many thousands work for one, so must every individual bring his labor to make the…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind,…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The way the left is reacting to the death of Fidel Castro up against the incontrovertible facts of who he was, you…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Unlock joy in any situation! True understanding and mutual respect do not bridge blames, destructive, negative criticisms, false excuses and gossips. To…

— Angelica Hopes