Envy Quotes

It is better to be envied than pitied. (Herodotus)
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. View quote
Aeschylus
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. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. View quote
Susan Sontag
Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. View quote
Josh Billings
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. View quote
Simone Weil
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The envious will die, but envy never. View quote
Molière
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. (William Hazlitt)
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. View quote
Petrarch
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. View quote
Irving Layton
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. View quote
Emil Cioran
Envy like fire always makes for the highest points. View quote
Livy
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! View quote
Samuel Richardson
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. View quote
Jacopo Sannazaro
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. View quote
Lord Byron
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. (Horace)
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it. View quote
Sallust
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied. View quote
Mark Twain
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. View quote
Horatio Nelson