Advantage Quote by Honore de Balzac

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

— Honore de Balzac

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 one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

— Bertrand Russell

Envy is human nature.

— Monica Bellucci

The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

— Frederick Buechner

Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.

— Bonnie Friedman

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Envy is very toxic to very great minds.

— Terry Mark

Envy derives from insecurity.

— Igor Babailov

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

— Rumi