Quotes:
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
View quotes by Sallust
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
View quotes by John Gay
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
View quotes by Heraclitus
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
View quotes by Socrates
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
View quotes by Sir Thomas Browne
I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned
View quotes by Christopher Marlowe
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
View quotes by Harold Coffin
With fame, in just proportion, envy grows
View quotes by Edward Young
Envy, like fire, soars upward
View quotes by Livy
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
View quotes by Tacitus
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
View quotes by Oscar Levant
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
View quotes by Max Beerbohm
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
View quotes by Baltasar Gracian
Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
View quotes by Ouida
I don't envy the driver and I don't think the American people will care to ride in his bus very far.
View quotes by Adlai E Stevenson
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
View quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
View quotes by Arthur Chapman
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy... Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. (Entertaining Mr Sloane)
View quotes by Joe Orton
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.
View quotes by Karl Menninger
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance: that imitation is suicide: that he must take himself for better, or for worse.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Proverbs:
A Heart At Peace Gives Life To The Body, But Envy Rots The Bones
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