Envy Quotes

"In this world one must be like everybody else if he doesn't want to provoke scorn or envy or jealousy."
-Mark Twain

"Envy is an insult to oneself."
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those who believe by those who don't believe."
-Dennis Prager

"As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man."
-Saint John Chrysostom

"Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue."
-Titus Livy

"Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."
-Aeschylus

"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."
-Socrates

"They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it."
-Sallust

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

"I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on."
-Oscar Levant

"This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high."
-Abraham Cowley

"Our envy of others devours us most of all."
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."
-Josh Billings

"We'll get exhibitions that will be the envy of the museum world."
-Michael De Marsche

"I was the envy of our neighborhood touch football gang."
-Jim Parker

"Virtue on earth is persecuted ever; the envious die, but envy never."
-Moliere

"We wanted to plan a celebration that would be the envy of Dubuque."
-Michael Mcdonald

"I don't envy China. I wish to emulate China."
-Palaniappan Chidambaram

"I don't envy the FCC's job here. This is an incredibly tricky decision."
-Ned Zachar

"The survivors would envy the dead."
-Nikita Khrushchev

"I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them."
-Susan Sontag

"Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy."
-Vittorio De Sica

"I do not envy the British Cabinet or the Bush administration their choice."
-Douglas Hurd

"More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning."
-Thomas Babington Macaulay

"The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The blind envy the one-eyed."
-Juvenal

"Kannapolis is the envy of the nation."
-Gene Mccombs