Envy Quotes

1097 Envy quotes by 766 unique authors

What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at. — Charlie Munger
And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy… — Thomas Browne
Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or… — Unknown Author
Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right. — Robert Breault
If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now? — Pietro Metastasio
It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred. — Peter Drucker
...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll, Or thunder sound,—the… — Robert Montgomery
We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent. — Unknown Author
Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape. — Angus Wilson
Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality… — William Hazlitt
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low… — Charles Caleb Colton
For all the unkind things said about envy, it would only be fair to acknowledge that not all envy is destructive. If envy leads us… — Sidney Greenberg
Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and greed… — Brent L. Top
It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it… — Paracelsus
The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what… — John Fowles
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Hell is in the here and now. So is Heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside us… — Elif Safak
We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general… — William Shakespeare

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