Quotes about envy
envy twins rivalry
Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins. Josh Billings
envy emulation virtue
Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice. Ouida
envy challenges merit
Merit challenges envy. John Dryden
envy rooms messi
I'm not envious of Leo [Messi]or Ney [Neymar]. Why would I be? If there is envy in the dressing room, you know it's only going to affect results. Luis Suarez
envy noble overcoming
You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free. Jiddu Krishnamurti
envy people anxiety
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
envy sorrow siege
Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind. Leonardo da Vinci
envy scare virtue
Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
envy judgment malevolence
The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence. Marcus Tullius Cicero
envy gossip criticism
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Mark Twain
envy levels thunderbolts
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt. Lucretius
envy doe fame
It stirs up envy, fame does. Marilyn Monroe
envy vices creeps
Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent. Ovid
envy feds hard
Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.
envy people littles
I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive. Freddie Highmore
envy generosity reign
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness. Miguel de Cervantes
envy reign virtue
In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
envy greed taxation
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him. Robert Ringer
envy morality speak
Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy. Walter Savage Landor
envy bliss fractions
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? Yevgeny Zamyatin
envy people reason
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy. William Shenstone
envy justice mind
Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved. William Hazlitt
envy soul
Envy is littleness of soul.
envy gossip people
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. W. Somerset Maugham
envy sticks reason
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy. Yann Martel
envy laughing stupidity
To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us. William Makepeace Thackeray
envy insult oneself
Envy is an insult to oneself. Yevgeny Yevtushenko