Envy Quote by Bertrand Russell

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness;…

— Jeremy Collier

Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions…

— William Hazlitt

“Envy is an indispensable member of our society and somewhat a loyal friend of our society; its fruits can be sweeter or bitter; it…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in…

— Bertrand Russell

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

— Anonymous

“Envy is resentment of good things that happen to other people. Jealousy increases the importance of the person we wish belonged only to us.…

— Carlos Fuentes

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

— T. S. Eliot

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

— Samuel Johnson

A person worth envying is a person who doesn't envy

— Boonaa Mohammed

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“For envy makes no claim whatsoever about the moral superiority of the envier, or about the “goodness” of his or her state of lacking…

— Sianne Ngai

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

— Theodore Roosevelt