Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. Votes: 4
Eubie BlakeEnvy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love. Votes: 3
Francois de La RochefoucauldEnvy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances. Votes: 3
Jeremy CollierEnvy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate. Votes: 3
Sir Fulke GrevilleThree be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Votes: 3
Dorothy ParkerEnvy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. Votes: 3
Harold CoffinEnvy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. Votes: 3
Jean Antoine Petit-SennEnvy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue. Votes: 3
Leonardo da VinciEnvy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object. Votes: 3
Jean de la BruyereEnvy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are. Votes: 3
Frederick BuechnerEnvy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. Votes: 3
George HerbertEnvy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeEnvy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeEnvy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner. Votes: 3
Austin O'MalleyEnvy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate. Votes: 3
Charles Caleb ColtonEnvy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people. Votes: 3
Jonathan EdwardsEnvy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. Votes: 3
Arthur ChapmanEnvy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores Votes: 3
Arthur ChapmanEnvy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended. Votes: 3
Friedrich NietzscheEnvy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious. Votes: 3
T. S. EliotEnvy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. Votes: 3
Honore de BalzacEnvy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. Votes: 3
Jacopo SannazaroEnvy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense? Votes: 3
Elvis PresleyEnvy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly. Votes: 3
Joseph EpsteinEnvy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another. Votes: 3
John GayEnvy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape. Votes: 3
Angus WilsonEnvy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. Votes: 3
Francis BaconEnvy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight) Votes: 3
Peter S. BeagleEnvy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it. Votes: 3
John WilmotThe sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. Votes: 2
Francois de La RochefoucauldAs iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. Votes: 2
AntisthenesPride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. Votes: 2
Dante AlighieriI defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. Votes: 2
Charles OlsonIf malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. Votes: 2
Charley ReeseIt is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. Votes: 2
AeschylusWith a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. Votes: 2
Lope de VegaGod's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. Votes: 2
Dietrich BonhoefferSome folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of Votes: 1
Henry FieldingTrue friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldMoral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. Votes: 0
Vittorio De SicaI envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural. Votes: 0
Jack NicholsonILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceI envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful. Votes: 0
Andrew DavidsonWhere envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness. Votes: 0
Miguel de CervantesRising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke. Votes: 0
Edmund SpenserGreed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy. Votes: 0
Wesley PrudenThere mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonJealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. Votes: 0
William ShenstoneGossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy. Votes: 0
David O. McKayFive great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonGlamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. Votes: 0
John BergerThere are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacThere's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy. Votes: 0
AeschylusIn short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness. Votes: 0
Miguel de CervantesThe judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroWith that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. Votes: 0
Charles ChurchillLoyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking. Votes: 0
Bainbridge ColbyEmulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacNo metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareThere is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. Votes: 0
Richard Brinsley SheridanCommunism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred. Votes: 0
Peter DruckerPurge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness. Votes: 0
Bahá'u'lláhThough by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. Votes: 0
Charles ChurchillThere is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThere can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy. Votes: 0
Henry HazlittThe reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity â it's envy. Votes: 0
Yann MartelNowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultAbove all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. Votes: 0
Abraham CahanThose who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy. Votes: 0
Walter Savage LandorThere is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneI envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration. Votes: 0
Andre AgassiAs poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy. Votes: 0
Masiela LushaThe envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.] Votes: 0
MoliereThe truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy. Votes: 0
Francois de La Rochefoucauldenvy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are. Votes: 0
Margaret of ValoisSurely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy. Votes: 0
Isaac AsimovThe surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light. Votes: 0
George GilderSocial justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy. Votes: 0
Friedrich August von HayekLive without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends. Votes: 0
OvidMadame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century. Votes: 0
Gustave FlaubertSufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity. Votes: 0
Idries ShahEthiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy. Votes: 0
Mengistu Haile MariamThat incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own. Votes: 0
Jonathan SwiftWhat I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me. Votes: 0
Marghanita LaskiHatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLove does not envy, does not boast, does not delight in evil but rejoice in truth. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaI envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told. Votes: 0
George Payne Rainsford JamesI envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me. Votes: 0
Charles KrauthammerI envy people who could just have one drink and not go look for cocaine afterwards. Votes: 0
Felipe EsparzaThere, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair Votes: 0
Dante AlighieriYou want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed. Votes: 0
Michel FaberEvery time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. Votes: 0
Simone WeilIf you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy. Votes: 0
Shannon L. AlderHatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTo venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. Votes: 0
Emile M. CioranAll envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonSometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheI'm emotionless, yet I breathe jealousy and envy People kill for me or die to defend me Votes: 0
Kirk JonesI think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy. Votes: 0
Chris WallaceThe world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThis only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high. Votes: 0
Abraham CowleyWhen is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want. Votes: 0
Nancy FridayI hate fishes, they all look so miserable. 3 seconds later they will forget. And then I envy them. Votes: 0
Daul KimJealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own. Votes: 0
Wes Fesler. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves. Votes: 0
Charlotte BronteWhoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. Votes: 0
HoraceGreat honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. Votes: 0
Ben JonsonWhoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are. Votes: 0
John Lancaster SpaldingOur purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy. Votes: 0
Chuck PalahniukIn a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades. Votes: 0
Viggo MortensenIt is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. Votes: 0
Baltasar GracianFear of nature led to society; hatred among men lead to culture; envy among women led to virtue. Votes: 0
Thiruman ArchunanPride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldI do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy. Votes: 0
Toni BraxtonLove and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual. Votes: 0
Francis BaconYou're shagging a woman who can turn into a dragon? Blast you, Charles, I am sick with envy! Votes: 0
Jeaniene FrostThe secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy. Votes: 0
HerodotusThe humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger. Votes: 0
Thomas a KempisThose who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues. Votes: 0
EuripidesThe hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonWe envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultThen you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. Votes: 0
Jennifer JamesFind people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals. Votes: 0
Jonathan SacksJealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire. Votes: 0
Susan CainI do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women. Votes: 0
Cary ElwesIt is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do. Votes: 0
PlautusThe man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him. Votes: 0
Henrietta MearsOh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you! Votes: 0
Giuseppe VerdiI really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.[Muste], for example. Votes: 0
Nat HentoffO! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! Votes: 0
Samuel RichardsonI envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice Votes: 0
Walter Scott