#Envy Quotes

“An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.”

“Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.”

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

“No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.”

“We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.”

“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .”

“Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands,But more when envy breeds unkind division:There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.”

“Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.”

“If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me;For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.”

“Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.”

“Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”

“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”

“My heart laments that virtue cannot liveOut of the teeth of emulation.”

“Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.”

“No crime is so great as daring to excel.”

“[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.”

“Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.”

“You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.”

“Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.”

“I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.”

“Everything he wanna have-I got.”

“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.”

“Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.”

“Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".”

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

“A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.”

“If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.”

“Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.”

“In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and ultimately on a vicious urge to lash out against others for the pain of ones own insignificance. That has been a common thread in things as disparate as ghetto riots, two world wars, and now Islamic terrorism.”

“There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.”

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”

“Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.”

“Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.”

“On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.”

“Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.”

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

“The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.”

“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, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”

“Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.”

“Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.”

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

“The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.”

“I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.”

“She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.”

“Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple”

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

“I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.”

“It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.”

“Envy is a declaration of inferiority.”

“I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.”