Envy Quotes

Envy is an insult to oneself.

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.

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.