Quotes about Envy

“Envy is honors foe.”

“Envy aims very high.”

“Nothing sharpens sight like envy.”

“Envy eats nothing, but its own heart.”

“Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.”

“He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.”

“They that envy others are their inferiors.”

“Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.”

“It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.”

“Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.”

“Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.”

“Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.”

“How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.”

“He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.”

“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”

“There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of ones fellow man.”

“The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.”

“Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.”

“None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.”

“The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.”

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

“I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.”

“Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”

“Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.”

“All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.”

“Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.”

“Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.”

“His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.”

“Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.”

“The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.”