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Quotes About Envious

That virtue here below is hated ever; The envious may die, but envy never.
~ Moliere
Art has the provinces in its blood. Art is provincial in principle, preserving for itself a naive, external, astonished and envious outlook.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Yes! all is past—swift time has fled away, Yet its swell pauses on my sickening mind; How long will horror nerve this frame of clay? I'm dead, and lingers yet my soul behind. Oh! powerful Fate, revoke thy deadly spell, And yet that may not ever, ever be, Heaven will not smile upon the work of Hell; Ah! no, for Heaven cannot smile on me; Fate, envious Fate, has sealed my wayward destiny.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.
~ Peter Cameron
Bragg was obstinate yet without firmness, ruthless without enterprise, crafty yet without stratagem, suspicious, envious, jealous, vain, a bantam in success and a dunghill in disaster."15
~ Unknown