Envy Quotes

Envy is littleness of soul.

— William Hazlitt

Envy is a deadly sin!

— Alexandra Adornetto

The living will envy the dead.

— Nikita Khrushchev

Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

— John Gay

Envy is an insult to oneself.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Envy derives from insecurity.

— Igor Babailov

“I'm pea green with envy”

— Sylvia Day Bared to You

Merit challenges envy.

— John Dryden

The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.

— Publilius Syrus

“Use your hater to make you greater!”

— Habeeb Akande

Envy is a surefire party killer.

— Bob Colacello

Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

''Don't envy my progress if you don't know my sacrifice

— Nishan Panwar

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

— Willa Cather

“Smile, just to infuriate those who envy you.”

— matshona dhliwayo

Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

— Roger Waters

I would say, anyone who knows me says they don't envy my life. I've just been through very hard times, yes.

— Maye Musk

“Envy, she decided, was a truly uncomfortable emotion. It said things about you that you didn't want to hear.”

— Sarah Morgan

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Don't envy anybody. Every person has something no one else has. Develop that one thing in yourself, and make it outstanding!

— Anonymous

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

— Simone Weil

“Stretch an unwavering tenacity when facing bad to worse attitudes.”

— Angelica Hopes

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

— Carrie Fisher

I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must…

— Charlotte Bronte

“Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is…

— Galileo Galilei

Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat.,…

— Horace

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and…

— Jack Gantos

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

— Harold E. Varmus

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more…

— Doris Lessing

Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value…

— Robert Greene

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

— Thomas Carlyle

And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little…

— Meg Wolitzer

They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“That’s how envy can spoil safety. Envy makes us resent people who have something we don’t have. It feeds on itself and…

— Henry Cloud

Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love rejoices in good wherever it finds it; envy is pained by good, and the sight of the happiness of others hurts…

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

When I was little, I thought my country was the best on the planet. And I grew up singing a song called…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

“There they were, the movers and shakers of Benjamin Franklin Hight - the sports stars, the cheerleaders, the good, the great, the…

— Joan Bauer