Envy quotes

Discover words that capture the very essence of Envy, a powerful emotion that fuels desire and longing. Explore a collection of insightful quotes that expose the depths and complexities of envy in all its forms.

If it were that easy to kill me, I'd have been dead a long time ago!

- Cain

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

- Charles Churchill

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

- Karl A. Menninger

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

- George Bancroft

Envy aims very high.

- Ovid

To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.

- Gustav Stresemann

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

- Victor Hugo

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

- Vittorio De Sica

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

- Horace

Envy is an insult to oneself.

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.

- Jerry Costello

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

- Henry Fielding

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

- John Gay

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.

- Joseph Epstein

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

- Charles Sanders Peirce

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I envy the dead.

- William Mulholland

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

- Joseph Epstein

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.

- Griffin Dunne

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

- Titus Livius

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

- Jim Rohn

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

- Charley Reese

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

- Bainbridge Colby

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.

- Arthur C. Brooks

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

- Baltasar Gracian