Quotes About Envy

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.

Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.

But envy is so base and detestable, so vile in its original, and so pernicious in its effects, that the predominance of almost any other quality is to be preferred. It is one of those lawless enemies of society, against which poisoned arrows may honestly be used. Let it therefore be constantly remembered, that whoever envies another, confesses his superiority, and let those be reformed by their pride who have lost their virtue.

Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction or notoriety, even vice and infamy.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see behind a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space, feels itself excluded.

In the country sometimes I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

I, who have no sisters nor brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends...

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

Women give birth, men take life. Therefore, men are jealous of this power. War is menstruation envy.

And you're outside, right? You don't know this game. You don't give a shit. But you envy them being so goddamned alive, for knowing what they care about and what they want and for trying to get at it. For being in it, man. And you're just sitting there watching.

No es que lo aborreciera por ser él, sino por el que yo era en comparación con él. Esa es la más intransitable de las envidias, la que se coagula en el estrecho pasaje hacia la confianza en uno mismo.

The human tendency to evaluate one's well-being by comparing it with that of another is the cause of Duryodhana's distress.

Envy is felt more strongly between near equals than those widely separated in fortune. It does not make sense to envy the Queen of England.

Why should one like you envy Yudhishthira? . . . Be content with what you have, stay with your own dharma—that is the way to happiness. —Dhritarashtra to Duryodhana, Mahabharata II.5.3, 61

The world didn't allow you clean, clear judgments very often, it seemed to Daiyan. He envied those who thought otherwise, who lived otherwise.

The peach-out-of-reach in the adjacent orchard is always more alluring than the apple on the ground in one's own.

La admiración es una forma noble de la envidia.

You have ability and people who don't never forgive you for it. Your very existence is a constant reproach to them.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

La envidia es el homenaje que la mediocridad le rinde al talento.

My goodness, if you think of all the folks in the world who'd give all they've got to be out of the racket and in a place like this, only they can't get out! Are we in the prison or are they ?