ENVY Quotes

It is in the character if very few
men to honor without envy
a friend who has prospered.
?Aeschylus

I envy people who drink.
At least they have something
to blame everything on.
?Oscar Levant

Do not envy a sinner; you don't
know what disaster awaits him.
?Old Testament

Our envy of others devours us most of all.
?Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Envy is like a fly that passes
all the body's sounder parts,
and dwells upon the sores.
?Arthur Chapman

Whoever feels pain in hearing a
good character of his neighbor,
will feel a pleasure in the reverse.
And those who despair to rise
in distinction by their virtues,
are happy if others can be depressed
to a level of themselves.
?Benjamin Franklin

The truest mark of being born
with great qualities,
is being born without envy.
?Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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.
?Young

The only person worth envying
is he person who doesn't envy.
?Anonymous

As iron is eaten away by rust,
so the envious are consumed
by their own passion.
?Antisthenes

Some folks rail against other folks,
because other folks have what
some folks would be glad of.
?Henry Fielding

How much better a thing it is to
be envied than to be pitied.
?Herodotus

All the world is competent to judge
my pictures except those
who are of my profession.
?William Hogarth

Envy is honors foe.
?Motto

They that envy others are their inferiors.
?Saying

Oh, what a bitter thing it is to
look into happiness
through another man's eyes.
?William Shakespeare

Man will do many things to get
himself loved; he will do all
things to get himself envied.
?Mark Twain

Whenever a friend succeeds,
a little something in me dies.
?Gore Vidal