Quotes About Envy

This public envy, seemeth to beat chiefly upon principal officers or ministers, rather than upon kings, and estates themselves. But this is a sure rule, that if the envy upon the minister be great, when the cause of it in him is small; or if the envy be general, in a manner upon all the ministers of an estate; then the envy (though hidden) is truly upon the state itself.

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

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In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

A cynic once said that the most difficult part of success is finding someone who is happy for you.

The pleasure men take in denigration of the gifted is one of the puzzles of life

Welcome me, if you will, as the ambassador of a hatred who knows its cause and does not envy you your whim of ending him.

There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable.

When you're jealous, your spit turns to acid. When you're jealous, you eat yourself from the inside out

As far as the praise of knowledge is concerned, al-Askarî otherwise restricts himself to some of the more ordinary statements, such as the hadîth affi rming the Prophet's permission to use attery and show envy in connection with knowledge, or Alî's famous remark that a man's value consists in what he knows or does well.

You asked me, 'Do you call this living?" And I answer: Yes, it is exactly what I call living. And in my best hypothetical sense, I envy it very much.

What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.

I love them, I hate them, I'm proud of them, I envy them, I miss them, I want to hear about everything and I don't want them to forget me.

The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly.

While our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

Haters are going to hate but they still want the recipe.

The only thing that would make her jealous would be if I led a parade riding a unicorn while ballerinas sang love songs.

Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power that, had you been born an aristocrat, would have made you one of the most deadly and influential people in all of the final empire.' Kelsier leaned forward again. 'But, you weren't born an aristocrat. You're not noble, Vin. You don't have to play by their rules--and that makes you even more powerful.

Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you've decided to have me disposed of?

Why is it," Marasi said angrily, "that small-minded men must destroy that which they know is better, and greater, than they?

The things that others have always seem better than what you have

Do not dismiss your own talents because you envy those of another.