Top 100 Quotes About Envy
#1. If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves.
Napoleon Hill
#2. You know, sometimes I envy you. It must be nice to be a wolf. Just for a while." "It has its drawbacks." Like fleas, she thought, as they locked up the museum. And the food. And the constant nagging feeling that you should be wearing three bras at once.
Terry Pratchett
#3. There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
Agnes Repplier
#4. I almost envy your horse," she said, "because these thighs hug him all day."
-Rebecca to Jake
Lorraine Heath
#5. The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
Victor Hugo
#6. Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.
Margaret Mead
#7. I envy the people who go to Paris the first time
Marc Jacobs
#8. Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante Alighieri
#9. To be envied, admired, is not a feeling. Nor is fame it feeling. There are feelings associated with fame, but few of them are any more enjoyable than the feelings associated with envy of fame.
David Foster Wallace
#10. I'd much rather you assumed for yourself a higher rank than mere menial labourer for the duration of this great adventure.'
He paused. 'You wish me to strike heroic poses against the sunset, Lady Envy?'
'Indeed!
Steven Erikson
#11. God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.
Jacques Rigaut
#12. The evils of envy and hatred masquerading as humanitarian idealism had darkened his life from its outset, stamping him as a man quick to search for the reality behind the expression of fine sentiments.
Theodore Dalrymple
#14. The sun weeps because it can no longer caress your skin or warm your lips." He sifted his fingers through my hair. "I do not envy the sun, Eva. But I truly hate the moon, because its light touches you in all the ways I cannot.
Michele Bardsley
#16. Thy shall not envy any person.
Each person has his or her unique calling and divine purpose to fulfill.
Follow your own path.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#17. The bloody-minded murder those whom they envy, and for what they covet.
Dean Koontz
#18. A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
Charles Churchill
#20. Chronocanine Envy:
Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, Life must be lived forward.
Douglas Coupland
#21. Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy
of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.
Arthur C. Clarke
#22. I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
J. Paul Getty
#23. If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.
Fareed Zakaria
#24. Chain of envy linked them, showing each what was lacking in life, but offering also the consolation that happiness was present right next door, in the life of a neighbour, an element of the same society.
Aravind Adiga
#25. People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an image of who they wish they had become. Don't hate them back because they may also become like you one day and it will mean hurting that image you carry!
Israelmore Ayivor
#26. If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.
Edward Young
#27. They all behaved as if they were absolutely disgusted by this, and amid the ribbing and hilarity that this elaborate performance of disgust and envy produced they were able to hide their true feelings of disgust and envy.
Jonathan Lynn
#28. Envy grew like a cancer, deep and invasive.
J. Lynn
#29. My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.
Swami Vivekananda
#30. When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.
Marilyn Monroe
#31. 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.
Petrarch
#32. Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#33. I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they're going, who sleep under the fluffy white comforter of belief.
Kelly Corrigan
#34. I assumed it was perfect, that everyone was happy and beautiful and wanted for nothing, and in my numb, limited way I felt envy and wanted to eat them all the more
Isaac Marion
#35. Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.
Emily Post
#36. I envy Muslims their practice of regular and genuine prayer. It's a beautiful practice that enriches their daily lives.
Jay Parini
#37. I Have Learned Why People Work So Hard To Succeed: It Is Because They Envy The Things Their Neighbors Have. But It Is Useless. It Is Like Chasing The Wind ... It Is Better To Have Only A Little, With Peace Of Mind, Than Be Busy All The Time With Both Hands, Trying To Catch The Wind
Anonymous
#38. Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#39. Envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.
Ada Leverson
#40. 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.
Jeremy Irons
#41. Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.
Thomas Sowell
#42. I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.
Napoleon Hill
#43. My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.
Brian D'Arcy James
#44. Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'
Mark Thomas
#45. The real work was the identification of those aspects of yourself that led to what he called "the negative emotions" - anger, envy, bitterness, greed, cynicism, hatred and the like - things that poured hurt into an already overfull world.
Roland Merullo
#46. There is nothing by which a man exasperates most people more, than displaying a superior ability of briliancy in conversation. They seem pleased at the time; but their envy makes them curse him at their hearts.
Samuel Johnson
#47. Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.
Jack Gantos
#48. I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.
Thomas Browne
#49. 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.
William Hazlitt
#50. Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is
where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.
Robert C. Shannon
#51. I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of sweat and emotional outpouring, colored entirely from their thoughts.
Kim Harrison
#52. That's how envy works: the better things are, the worse they are, because they don't belong to you.
William Deresiewicz
#53. He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.
Roger L'Estrange
#54. The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a really stupid sin because it's the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There's a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you want to get on that trolley?
Charlie Munger
#55. It's unreasonable and unjustified, of course, but it's always there, hiding in the long shadow thrown by envy.
Gregory David Roberts
#57. Oh, miraculous chameleon, science, who can reverse your doctrine hourly and never shake our faith! What cult ever battered by this world of doubt can help but envy you?
Ada Palmer
#58. What good is envy? It's the one sin you can't have any fun at.
Charlie Munger
#59. What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?
Dorothy L. Sayers
#60. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.
Jane Austen
#61. How could we even begin to disarm greed and envy? Perhaps by being much less greedy and envious ourselves; perhaps by resisting the temptation of letting our luxuries become needs; and perhaps by even scrutinising our needs to see if they cannot be simplified and reduced.
Ernst F. Schumacher
#63. You can get away from envy by enjoying the pleasures that come your way, by doing the work that you have to do, and by avoiding comparisons with those whom you imagine, perhaps quite falsely, to be more fortunate than yourself.
Bertrand Russell
#64. Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
Norm MacDonald
#65. No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.
Livy
#66. When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.
Rachel Field
#67. The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
John Lyly
#68. The love we have for our native land would be good and praiseworthy if it did not degenerate, as we see it does everywhere, into vanity, the spirit of predominance, acquisitiveness, hate, envy, nationalism, and militarism
Henri Barbusse
#69. Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.
Paul Ryan
#70. Learn to love your haters, they are a wonderful source of inspiration.
Habeeb Akande
#71. Be brave, gladiatrix, he said, And be wary. Bright things beget treachery. Beautiful things breed envy. Once you win Caesar's love, you'll earn his enemies' hate.
Lesley Livingston
#72. Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#73. Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.
Martin Luther
#74. Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.
Ovid
#75. It is my greatest wish to enable our people to live with nothing to envy at the earliest possible date, and it is my greatest pleasure to work energetically, sharing my joys and sorrows with our people, on the road of translating my wish into reality.
Kim Jong Il
#76. We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness.
Chico Xavier
#78. For he, Adeimantus, whose mind is fixed upon true being, has surely no time to look down upon the affairs of earth, or to be filled with malice and envy, contending against men
Plato
#79. I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.
Salman Rushdie
#80. There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly righteous, are brought down low by their envy. A true man will be known by his absence of envy. An evil man will be known by the presence of envy within him.
C. JoyBell C.
#81. What's wrong with people is people. There's no cure for that.
Marty Rubin
#82. Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
Plutarch
#83. I was angry with you. (Callie)
For what? (Sin)
Sleeping on the floor again. What is it with you and the floor? Most women have to fear their husbands are in the bed of another. Me, 'tis the hearth I envy. (Callie)
Kinley MacGregor
#84. Never be envious of what someone else has.You don't know the price they paid to get it, and you don't know the price they are paying to keep it.
Stephan Labossiere
#85. It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.
Hillman Curtis
#87. The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
Alain De Botton
#88. Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
Jonathan Edwards
#89. Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if left unattended grows into a tree which drops the fruits of anger, greed, envy, dispersion, competitiveness, ego and pain
Evan Sutter
#90. I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
Oscar Wilde
#91. Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#92. Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
John Lancaster Spalding
#93. Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
Walter Savage Landor
#94. What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?"
"Everything, since he has a command and I have not.
Patrick O'Brian
#95. To how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called [Eupatridas Gk.], i.e. nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection.
Marcus Aurelius
#96. Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#97. How I envy them," said Colonel Jones. "Sometimes it's quite a relief to have something trivial to worry about.
Arthur C. Clarke
#98. 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.
Annabel Pitcher
#99. Equality was not freedom, it had only been the mistaken yearning to become like the people of the town. And who wanted to become like the very ones feared and hated? Envy was not freedom.
Nadine Gordimer
#100. What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me.
Marghanita Laski
