Quotes About Envy

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

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

The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

You can't be envious and happy at the same time.

With faint praises one another damn.

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

The proud hate pride - in others.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.

A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are.

If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Certainly I believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of those you don't like?

Superiority is always detested.

I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school, everybody hated me.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

None think the great unhappy but the great.