quotations about envy
Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top
Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level.
LUCRETIUS
De Rerum Natura
Envy ought in strict truth to have no place whatever allowed it in the heart of man; for the goods of this present world, are so vile and low, that they are beneath it; and those of the future world, are so vast and exalted, that they are above it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
MONTESQUIEU
attributed, Day's Collacon
The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
HAROLD COFFIN
attributed, Quotable Quotes
Fools may our scorn, not envy raise,
For envy is a kind of praise.
JOHN GAY
Fables
The only cure for envy is to look upon the prosperity of the envied person as belonging to one's self.
DIONYSIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Envy and jealousy, twin sisters, come with the cunning of the fox to steal away our peace and happiness.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY
Helps to Happiness
I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Doctor Faustus
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Envy crawls toward the wealthy.
SOPHOCLES
attributed, Day's Collacon
If envy is rankling in your bosom, declare war against it at once; a war of extermination; no truce, no treaty, no compromise. Like the pirate on the high seas, it is an outlaw, an enemy to all mankind, and should be hung up at the yard arm until it is dead.
LEVI CARROLL JUDSON
The Moral Probe
The eradiction of envy: gratitude.
GIANNINA BRASCHI
United States of Banana
This ritual of envy is like looking at old photos after a breakup: I know it's probably unhealthy, but indulging that negativity feels good somehow.
KRISTIN WONG
"How to Get Better at Being Jealous", The Cut, January 29, 2018
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
He who envies me, makes my virtue his vice, and my happiness his torment.
H. HOOKER
attributed, Day's Collacon
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
"On Envy", The Plain Speaker, 1826
This only grant me, that my means may lie
Too low for envy, for contempt too high.
ABRAHAM COWLEY
Of Myself
Take heed you harbour not that vice call'd Envy, lest another's happiness be your torment, and God's blessing become your curse.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine