ENVY QUOTES Quotes

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

Envy! eldest-born of hell!

Charles Jennens of Gopsall

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

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

Saint John Chrysostom

Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.

Robert Lembke

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
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