Quotes about envy
envy emotion common
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. John Berger
envy blind
Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est Livy
envy kind natural
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise. Herodotus
envy envied
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
envy envied
It is better to be envied than pitied.
envy secret absence
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
envy people literature
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. Heinrich Heine
envy soul mind
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. Henry Fielding
envy perfection faults
Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection. Johann Kaspar Lavater
envy hatred needs
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
envy challenges merit
Merit challenges envy. John Dryden
envy envious harm
The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well. John Lyly
envy greed steady
Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving. Billy Graham
envy gifts given god ill moved
The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.
envy gossip criticism
The most destructive criticism is indifference. E. W. Howe
envy balls moral
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism. Martin Amis
envy praise
Envy bestrides praise. Pindar
envy insult accepted
The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them. Paulo Coelho
envy inferiority conscious
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides. Pliny the Elder
envy soul disorder
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to. Plutarch
envy matter ink
When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
envy pleasure advantage
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
envy human-nature humans
Envy is human nature. Monica Bellucci
envy pay distinction
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. Ralph Waldo Emerson
envy
Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own. Tavis Smiley
envy secret moonlight
Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight) Peter S. Beagle
envy good-things destruction
Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing. Pythagoras
envy may sin
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins. Joseph Epstein
envy kind feels
Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
envy twins rivalry
Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins. Josh Billings
envy emulation virtue
Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice. Ouida
envy mind body
Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow. Paramahansa Yogananda
envy cease
Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead. Ovid