Quotes about Envy

Envy is an insult to oneself. Votes: 4

Envy is the basis of democracy. Votes: 4

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Votes: 4

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly. Votes: 4

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. Votes: 4

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him. Votes: 4

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Votes: 4

Envy suggests inferiority. Votes: 3

Envy bestrides praise. Votes: 3

Envy-Thy art blindness Votes: 3

Envy is human nature. Votes: 3

Envy derives from insecurity. Votes: 3

Envy grieves. Jealousy rages. Votes: 3

Envy is littleness of soul. Votes: 3

Envy is a deadly sin! Votes: 3

Envy, like fire, soars upward. Votes: 3

Envy, like flames, soars upwards. Votes: 3

Envy is a declaration of inferiority. Votes: 3

Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.". Votes: 3

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide. Votes: 3

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred. Votes: 3

Calumny is the offspring of Envy. Votes: 3

Envy is a kind of praise. Votes: 3

Envy's a sharper spur than pay. Votes: 3

Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est Votes: 3

Envy is the religion of the mediocre Votes: 3

Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate. Votes: 3

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue Votes: 3

Envy is the ulcer of the soul. Votes: 3

Envy is the cause of political division. Votes: 3

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind. Votes: 3

Envy does not allow humanity to sleep. Votes: 3

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation. Votes: 3

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance. Votes: 3

Envy is the central fact of American life. Votes: 3

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell. Votes: 3

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides. Votes: 3

Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos. Votes: 3

Envy grew like a cancer, deep and invasive. Votes: 3

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. Votes: 3

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points. Votes: 3

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is. Votes: 3

Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions. Votes: 3

Envy awakens at the sound of a distant laugh. Votes: 3

Envy was just the tax you paid on success. Votes: 3

Envy is not to be conquered but by death. Votes: 3

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. Votes: 3

Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living. Votes: 3

Envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness. Votes: 3

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving. Votes: 3

Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned Votes: 3

Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting. Votes: 3

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. Votes: 3

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love. Votes: 3

Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice. Votes: 3

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead. Votes: 3

Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple Votes: 3

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. Votes: 3

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances. Votes: 3

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form. Votes: 3

Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best. Votes: 3

Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. Votes: 3

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent. Votes: 3

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise. Votes: 3

Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others. Votes: 3

Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate. Votes: 3

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached. Votes: 3

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate. Votes: 3

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Votes: 3

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied. Votes: 3

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. Votes: 3

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. Votes: 3

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. Votes: 3

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue. Votes: 3

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object. Votes: 3

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are. Votes: 3

Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. Votes: 3

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. Votes: 3

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue Votes: 3

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. Votes: 3

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole. Votes: 3

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue Votes: 3

Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner. Votes: 3

Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate. Votes: 3

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people. Votes: 3

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success Votes: 3

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. Votes: 3

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores Votes: 3

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended. Votes: 3

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious. Votes: 3

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. Votes: 3

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. Votes: 3

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense? Votes: 3

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly. Votes: 3

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another. Votes: 3

Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning. Votes: 3

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had. Votes: 3

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape. Votes: 3

Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life. Votes: 3

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair. Votes: 3

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. Votes: 3

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight) Votes: 3

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it. Votes: 3

Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism. Votes: 3

Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren't hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love. Votes: 3

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death? Votes: 3

Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground. Votes: 3

Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow. Votes: 3

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock. Votes: 3

Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself. Votes: 3

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around. Votes: 3

Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction. Votes: 3

Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?' Votes: 3

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. Votes: 2

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build. Votes: 2

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. Votes: 2

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. Votes: 2

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be. Votes: 2

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. Votes: 2

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. Votes: 2

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell. Votes: 2

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. Votes: 2

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. Votes: 2

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. Votes: 2

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. Votes: 2

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. Votes: 2

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. Votes: 2

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. Votes: 2

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. Votes: 2

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. Votes: 2

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep. Votes: 2

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. Votes: 2

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. Votes: 2

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. Votes: 2

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change. Votes: 2

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. Votes: 2

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate. Votes: 2

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation. Votes: 2

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. Votes: 2

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. Votes: 2

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master. Votes: 2

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. Votes: 2

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned. Votes: 2

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive. Votes: 2

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior? Votes: 2

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy. Votes: 2

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. Votes: 2

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman. Votes: 2

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. Votes: 2

People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise. Votes: 2

I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain, sentimental, envious - rather a German type. Her last days before her execution were spent in chronicling petty social snubs or triumphs of many years back. She was a democrat chiefly from envy of the noblesse. Votes: 2

Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all things, see to it that you do not hold malice or enmity toward any one; to do so cuts you off from the mind whose treasures you seek to make your own. Lay aside all narrow personal ambition and determine to seek the highest good. Votes: 2

Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned Votes: 1

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man Votes: 1

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on Votes: 1

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of Votes: 1

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power Votes: 1

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others Votes: 1

I have also learned why people work so hard to succeed: It is because they envy the things their neighbors have. But it is useless. It is like chasing the wind...It is better to have only a little, with peace of mind, than be busy all the time with both hands, trying to catch the wind Votes: 1

Merit challenges envy. Votes: 0

Socialism is politicized envy. Votes: 0

Class envy is dangerous. Votes: 0

I envy my daughter's childhood. Votes: 0

The eyes envy the mind. Votes: 0

It stirs up envy, fame does. Votes: 0

Congratulations is the civility of envy. Votes: 0

The living will envy the dead. Votes: 0

Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins. Votes: 0

All envy is proportionate to desire. Votes: 0

Genius involves both envy and calumny. Votes: 0

Not praising the deserving prevents envy. Votes: 0

I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal. Votes: 0

Imitation is suicide, envy is ignorance. Votes: 0

Carrying envy makes life more difficult. Votes: 0

People can commend the weather without envy. Votes: 0

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy. Votes: 0

Quiet and incredible. I really envy that. Votes: 0

With fame, in just proportion, envy grows. Votes: 0

The envious will die, but envy never. Votes: 0

She's in trouble, but I envy her. Votes: 0

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man. Votes: 0

Do not envy the rich; pity them. Matthew 19:24. Votes: 0

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own. Votes: 0

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity. Votes: 0

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along. Votes: 0

Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom. Votes: 0

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice. Votes: 0

Those who raise envy will easily incur censure. Votes: 0

A competitive society is a society of envy. Votes: 0

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. Votes: 0

People may show jealousy, but hide their envy. Votes: 0

In a boom, envy; in a bust, anger. Votes: 0

Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. Votes: 0

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery. Votes: 0

It is better to arouse envy than pity. Votes: 0

A man shall never be enriched by envy. Votes: 0

I only envy as basic old sexual jealousy. Votes: 0

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness! Votes: 0

I think envy motivates a lot of people. Votes: 0

I almost envy people who say whatever they want. Votes: 0

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead. Votes: 0

Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style. Votes: 0

Some people suffer from the green-eyed monster called envy. Votes: 0

Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object. Votes: 0

Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned. Votes: 0

Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice. Votes: 0

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. Votes: 0

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. Votes: 0

Never envy others. Be happy and love your work. Votes: 0

Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other. Votes: 0

Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven. Votes: 0

I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss. Votes: 0

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays. Votes: 0

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie. Votes: 0

Our envy of others devours us most of all. Votes: 0

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living. Votes: 0

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. Votes: 0

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy. Votes: 0

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish Votes: 0

I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy. Votes: 0

Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts. Votes: 0

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. Votes: 0

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead. Votes: 0

Do not develop jealousy, hatred or envy on any count. Votes: 0

It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy. Votes: 0

I envy what I fear and hate what I envy. Votes: 0

I can see the greed and envy in your eyes. Votes: 0

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains. Votes: 0

You may envy every one, but no one envies you. Votes: 0

"There aint nothin gonna stop me so just envy it" Votes: 0

A person worth envying is a person who doesn't envy Votes: 0

The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her. Votes: 0

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Votes: 0

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice. Votes: 0

Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence. Votes: 0

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness. Votes: 0

The only thing I envy in young people is their livers. Votes: 0

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy. Votes: 0

As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy. Votes: 0

The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy. Votes: 0

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world. Votes: 0

I envy the people who go to Paris the first time Votes: 0

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy. Votes: 0

Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy. Votes: 0

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring. Votes: 0

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy. Votes: 0

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised. Votes: 0

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment. Votes: 0

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all. Votes: 0

I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens. Votes: 0

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides. Votes: 0

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. Votes: 0

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. Votes: 0

Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy. Votes: 0

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural. Votes: 0

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction. Votes: 0

I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful. Votes: 0

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness. Votes: 0

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people. Votes: 0

If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion. Votes: 0

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke. Votes: 0

Do not envy any one. Their travel path is different from yours. Votes: 0

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people. Votes: 0

Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it. Votes: 0

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present. Votes: 0

When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy. Votes: 0

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit. Votes: 0

It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him. Votes: 0

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy. Votes: 0

Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy. Votes: 0

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. Votes: 0

I think I would envy me too, if I didn't know me better... Votes: 0

I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today. Votes: 0

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. Votes: 0

Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness. Votes: 0

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy. Votes: 0

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. Votes: 0

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. Votes: 0

We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy. Votes: 0

I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now. Votes: 0

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return? Votes: 0

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. Votes: 0

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy. Votes: 0

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get. Votes: 0

We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company ... Votes: 0

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. Votes: 0

There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy. Votes: 0

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness. Votes: 0

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence. Votes: 0

With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. Votes: 0

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking. Votes: 0

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. Votes: 0

Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening Votes: 0

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. Votes: 0

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little. Votes: 0

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. Votes: 0

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love. Votes: 0

What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves. Votes: 0

When you become who you wish to be, there is no need for envy. Votes: 0

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. Votes: 0

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. Votes: 0

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred. Votes: 0

Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness. Votes: 0

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. Votes: 0

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich. Votes: 0

There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy. Votes: 0

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity – it's envy. Votes: 0

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right. Votes: 0

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. Votes: 0

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy. Votes: 0

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less. Votes: 0

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation. Votes: 0

I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration. Votes: 0

As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy. Votes: 0

I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown. Votes: 0

The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.] Votes: 0

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy. Votes: 0

envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are. Votes: 0

The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends. Votes: 0

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad. Votes: 0

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are. Votes: 0

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are. Votes: 0

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy. Votes: 0

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy. Votes: 0

It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy. Votes: 0

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light. Votes: 0

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy. Votes: 0

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends. Votes: 0

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue. Votes: 0

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature. Votes: 0

Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century. Votes: 0

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency. Votes: 0

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy. Votes: 0

Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity. Votes: 0

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy. Votes: 0

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy. Votes: 0

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. Votes: 0

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own. Votes: 0

What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me. Votes: 0

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. Votes: 0

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God Votes: 0

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved. Votes: 0

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself. Votes: 0

Love does not envy, does not boast, does not delight in evil but rejoice in truth. Votes: 0

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told. Votes: 0

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me. Votes: 0

I envy people who could just have one drink and not go look for cocaine afterwards. Votes: 0

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair Votes: 0

What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at. Votes: 0

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to. Votes: 0

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed. Votes: 0

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. Votes: 0

I crave for knowledge. I envy tolerant, peaceful folks. I am frightened by ignorance. I loathe violence. Votes: 0

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego. Votes: 0

If you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy. Votes: 0

I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through. Votes: 0

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred. Votes: 0

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. Votes: 0

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy. Votes: 0

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied. Votes: 0

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy. Votes: 0

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful. Votes: 0

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality. Votes: 0

I'm emotionless, yet I breathe jealousy and envy People kill for me or die to defend me Votes: 0

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy. Votes: 0

Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier. Votes: 0

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. Votes: 0

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. Votes: 0

This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high. Votes: 0

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness... Votes: 0

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want. Votes: 0

Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory. Votes: 0

If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago. Votes: 0

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity? Votes: 0

Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist. Votes: 0

I hate fishes, they all look so miserable. 3 seconds later they will forget. And then I envy them. Votes: 0

Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own. Votes: 0

Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy. Votes: 0

. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves. Votes: 0

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. Votes: 0

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. Votes: 0

Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are. Votes: 0

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy. Votes: 0

In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades. Votes: 0

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. Votes: 0

Fear of nature led to society; hatred among men lead to culture; envy among women led to virtue. Votes: 0

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too. Votes: 0

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy. Votes: 0

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual. Votes: 0

You're shagging a woman who can turn into a dragon? Blast you, Charles, I am sick with envy! Votes: 0

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy. Votes: 0

The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger. Votes: 0

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues. Votes: 0

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning. Votes: 0

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him. Votes: 0

Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter. Votes: 0

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us. Votes: 0

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? Votes: 0

envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world ... Votes: 0

Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy. Votes: 0

We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail. Votes: 0

Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. Votes: 0

Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate. Votes: 0

There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia. Votes: 0

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him. Votes: 0

Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me. Votes: 0

You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life. Votes: 0

Despite some struggles of our own, Americas business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world. Votes: 0

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals. Votes: 0

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire. Votes: 0

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish. Votes: 0

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave. Votes: 0

Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector. Votes: 0

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself. Votes: 0

Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic? Votes: 0

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women. Votes: 0

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do. Votes: 0

The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him. Votes: 0

Remembrance of our kiss brings not your lips nor mine to mind. The flesh can only envy consumption so divine. Votes: 0

To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler. Votes: 0

Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you! Votes: 0

I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.[Muste], for example. Votes: 0

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy. Votes: 0

Work hard to discover your gift and you will never envy or hate another human being who is manifesting theirs. Votes: 0

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. Votes: 0

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides. Votes: 0

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! Votes: 0

avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. Votes: 0

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy. Votes: 0

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage. Votes: 0

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage." Votes: 0

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. Votes: 0

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. Votes: 0

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt. Votes: 0

Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.... Votes: 0

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen. Votes: 0

I definitely have breast envy. When teenage girls were saying 'I wish I had breasts', I was thinking the same thing. Votes: 0

The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world. Votes: 0

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy. Votes: 0

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational. Votes: 0

No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed. Votes: 0

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror. Votes: 0

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins. Votes: 0

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now? Votes: 0

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice Votes: 0

On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion. Votes: 0

The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established. Votes: 0

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. Votes: 0

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors. Votes: 0

It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that. Votes: 0

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. Votes: 0

If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself. Votes: 0

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision. Votes: 0

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem. Votes: 0

I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid! Votes: 0

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery. Votes: 0

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does. Votes: 0

A beautiful woman peers out her window, as full of envy as the harridan who peers up at her from the street. Votes: 0

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly. Votes: 0

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways. Votes: 0

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last. Votes: 0

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. Votes: 0

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ... Votes: 0

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them. Votes: 0

The race we are really in is the race against sin, and surely envy is one of the most universal of those. Votes: 0

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot. Votes: 0

I'm a frustrated driver. I would love to be out on the track instead of them. I look at them with envy. Votes: 0

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners. Votes: 0

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life. Votes: 0

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it. Votes: 0

Oh I know it well, love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. Votes: 0

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it. Votes: 0

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise. Votes: 0

Do not envy others. If someone gets a larger piece of cake, be happy for them. They'll get fat and you'll stay thin. Votes: 0

Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can"¦. The art world is high school with money. Votes: 0

If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy. Votes: 0

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. Votes: 0

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all. Votes: 0

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up. Votes: 0

There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart. Votes: 0

It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves. Votes: 0

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.' Votes: 0

I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely. Votes: 0

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy! Votes: 0

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity. Votes: 0

I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King. Votes: 0

Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given. Votes: 0

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'. Votes: 0

The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to. Votes: 0

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth. Votes: 0

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale. Votes: 0

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods. Votes: 0

We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next. Votes: 0

In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. Votes: 0

We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him. Votes: 0

He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God? Votes: 0

Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all... be happy just the way you are. Votes: 0

If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world. Votes: 0

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends. Votes: 0

We are the envy of Europe and in a few years time we are going to be one of the top countries in the world. Votes: 0