Envy Quotes


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Envy`s spite is talent`s greatest injustice.

- Vanna Bonta

Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.

- Bertrand Russell

You have enemies? Good. That means you`ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

- Winston Churchill

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

- Winston Churchill

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead

- Mark Twain

Envy shoots at others and wounds itself

- English Proverb

You can`t be envious and happy at the same time

- Frank Tyger

Envy eats nothing but its own heart

- German Proverb

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

- Harold Coffin

Who among us hasn`t envied a cat`s ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?

- Karen Brademeyer

It is better to want what you have than to have what you want.

- Proverb
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A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother`s love.

- Thomas C. Haliburton