Envy Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

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

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

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

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

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.

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

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.

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.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

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

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

I envy the dead.

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

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

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

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.

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

Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

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

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.