Envy Sayings & Quotes
These envy sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.It is in the character of very few men to honour without envy a friend who has prospered. - Aeschylus
When you take my arm, and we begin that awkward, stately walk toward your husband-to-be, I will envy him only one thing. He will be able to see you coming toward him. He will behold you in your brightness, confidence and wonder, as you cause everyone to gasp in amazement, just as you did the day you were first presented to the world. [To his daughter on her wedding] - Roger Rosenblatt
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. [La., Summa petit livor: perflant altissima venti.] - Ovid
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. - Sherwood Anderson
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity. [La., Est haec saeculi labes quaedam et macula virtuti invidere, velle ipsum florem dignitatis infringere] - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Three sparks, pride, envy, and avarice, have been kindled in all hearts. [It., Superbia, invidia ed avarizia sono Le tre faville che hanno i cori accesi] - Dante Alighieri
A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe. - Samuel Johnson
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favour, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us. - Seneca
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. - Francesco Petrarch
Envy: Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. - Alexander Pope
Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. - George Herbert
Nothing sharpens sight like envy. - Thomas Fuller
Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend. - Charles Churchill
Illustrious: Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Look! how he laughs and stretches out his arms, And opens wide his blue eyes upon thine, To hail his father; while his little form Flutters as winged with joy. Talk not of pain! The childless cherubs well might envy thee The pleasures of a parent. - Lord Byron
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. - Sir Francis Bacon
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. - Henry Fielding
Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick. - Abigail Van Buren
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. - Alexander Pope
Envy is the ulcer of the soul. - Socrates
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire. - Dante Alighieri
Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums. - Samuel Johnson