Quotes About Envy

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

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

Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I'd exchanged more saliva than sentences.

The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.

Jealousy is cruel as a tomb, its embers are embers of fire.

Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.

Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!

Jealousy ... is the most obvious sign of impotency.

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

Envy suggests inferiority.