Envy Quotes & Sayings
These envy quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - Baltasar Gracian Y Morales
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
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. - Heraclitus of Ephesus
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced. - Sir Francis Bacon
Illustrious: Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce
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
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