Quotes About Envy

the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another, that has any of his own.

I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

I was just watching "So You Think You Can Dance," flipping channels, and I was like man, I could never do that.

Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.

The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.

Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

A lot of the men were upset or jealous of me because I got the girl. Men are always trying too hard. When I effortlessly get the girl, it pisses them off.

What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.

Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart.

Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the father, for love!

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

One says that money doesn't buy happiness. Without a doubt, one was speaking of the money of others.