It is better to arouse envy than pity.

“She preferred to be at the receiving end of envy than pity.”

— Julian Fellowes

Don't pity the girl with one true friend. Envy her. Pity the girl with just a thousand acquaintances.

— Katie Obenchain

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

— Joseph Hall

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I lowered my hands and stared at the tiny horse, considering his question. I couldn’t think of anyone I’d ever felt sorry for. There…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not…

— Judith Levine

O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do,…

— Thomas Carlyle

But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that…

— Julius Lester

A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf…

— Wendy Mass

Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our…

— Henry Fielding

I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was…

— Winston Churchill

avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.

— St. Catherine of Siena

I avoid envy at all costs.

— Claudia Winkleman

“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing…

— Dean Koontz

The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white…

— Thomas Sowell