Quote by Willard Sterne Randall

Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly,…

— Pythagoras

“Envy is awful. Unlike jealousy, which comes from the threat of losing what you cherish, envy is a dark desire for things over which…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“For envy makes no claim whatsoever about the moral superiority of the envier, or about the “goodness” of his or her state of lacking…

— Sianne Ngai

“Accusations are merely the envy of the unenlightened given form.”

— Brian Farrey

“Envy is not meant to cause hatred, but to inspire us to be more.”

— Brandon Lee Godbee

“Envy is grieving at the good of another, than which no sin is more offensive to God, nor more injurious to our neighbour and…

— Matthew Henry

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

“Slander is the first bastion of incompetency.”

— Steven Wood Collins

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Envy is, in a sense, an intentional feeling that paradoxically undermines its own intentionality.”

— Sianne Ngai

“In our society cultural analysts speak of the “politics of envy,” where politicians, for their own interests, stir up strife among people to create…

— R.C. Sproul