Nothing sharpens sight like envy
Thomas Fuller
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
Alexander Pope
Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.
Ovid
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. Author:
Ovid
Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.
Ovid
With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
Charles Churchill
I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
Voltaire
Envy is ignorance. Imitation is suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha
Bless the upward hearts who find all war, all envy, and all regret to be unacceptable, especially inside themselves.
Laura Teresa Marquez
Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
Titus Livy
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores
Arthur Chapman