Envy Quotes

Envy shoots at others and wounds itself

Envy is an insult to oneself.

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

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
Harold Coffin

Envy eats nothing but its own heart

The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself
Helmut Schoeck

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. Author:

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
Arthur Chapman

Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart, like a viper in its hole.

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.



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