Broads Quote by Robert Breault

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

— Jean Rostand

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself…

— William Hazlitt

We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have…

— Bonnie Friedman

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 ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

— Anonymous

There are some people whom we envy not because they are rich or handsome or successful, although they may be all or any of…

— Elizabeth Bishop

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

— Pliny the Elder

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more…

— Alain de Botton

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

— T. S. Eliot

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced…

— Samuel Johnson

Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot…

— William Hazlitt