Famous Envy Quotes

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

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

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Envy and wrath shorten the life. -- Ecclesiasticus

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.

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

Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of ones fellow man.

It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.