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Envy Quotes by Robert Greene
- When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you…
- Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a…
- Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence and…
- Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to…
More Envy Quotes
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell. — Philip James Bailey
- The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest… — P T Barnum
- Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in… — Francis Beaumont
- Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. — John Berger
- Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. — Josh Billings
- It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. — Aeschylus
- He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. — Aeschylus
- Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. — Eubie Blake
- God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. — Elizabeth Bowen
- Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep. — Helen Gurley Brown