Envy Quotes

1097 Envy quotes by 766 unique authors

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority. — Emily Post
Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire… — Joseph Addison
Expect not praise without envy until you are dead. — Charles Caleb Colton
The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses… — William Ralph Inge
The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't… — Tennessee Williams
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors. — Juvenal
Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard. — Unknown Author
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. — Samuel Johnson
Jealousy dislikes the world to know it. — Lord Byron
Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return. — Alfred Capus
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be. — Jean Rostand
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. — Mark Twain
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. — Ayn Rand
Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational. — Warren Buffett
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises. — Samuel Johnson
Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he… — Viktor E. Frankl
The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves… — Gary North
What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool.… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune. — Baron de Montesquieu
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other… — William Shakespeare
O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs… — William Carlos Williams

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