Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovid

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

Ovid

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

Ovid

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

Martin Amis

Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.

Pindar

Envy bestrides praise.

Paulo Coelho

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

Pliny the Elder

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

Plutarch

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

Plutarch

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

Plutarch

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Peter S. Beagle

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

Pythagoras

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.

Joseph Epstein

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

Joseph Epstein

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

Regina Brett

Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

Thurgood Marshall

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

Thucydides

Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.

Josh Billings

Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.

Ouida

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Monica Bellucci

Envy is human nature.

Tavis Smiley

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.

Susan Cain

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

T. S. Eliot

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

Susan Sontag

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Rumi

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

Toni Braxton

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

Thomas B. Macaulay

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

Thomas Hobbes

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Viggo Mortensen

In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

Thomas Browne

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

Thomas Sowell

Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".

Thomas Sowell

Whether as a radical student, a community organizer or a far left politician, Barack Obama's ideology has been based on a vision of the Haves versus the Have Nots. . .Obama's ideology is an ideology of envy, resentment, and payback.