Envy Quotes
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Envy is a kind of praise.
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If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.
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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.
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My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.
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Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.
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I think about some of the novels I love - The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni's Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley. I think I'm more intrigued by characters who don't do the right thing and where we are allowed to identify with their shame/dishonesty/envy... whatever.
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Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
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Objecting to the diagnosis of penis envy was a sure sign of penis envy.
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Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.
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The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization.
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Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.
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Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.
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For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.
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Jokes rot. They're not like songs. I always envy singers - Sting is always going to sing 'Roxanne'. But people want to hear new jokes. I've written jokes as good as 'Roxanne', I believe. But I can't tell them again.
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Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
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We are becoming so fickle and self involved. Always looking for the next best thing - especially when it comes to people. We spend hours buried in our phones trying to keep up with the social lives of people we may not even know. Envy and the fear of missing out have taken over. Yet we are all still longing for human connection.
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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
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If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.
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Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.
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We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but the desire to equal others is a sign of envy.
