Quotes About Envy

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

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

No man is happy but by comparison.

We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.

People have a crab mentality, man. They're walking sideways.

Always wanting another man than your own.

In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

The unenvied man is not enviable.

Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be.

But like the legless man, I'm unaccountably fascinated by those who can dance.