quotations about envy
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
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
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
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
Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.
ANNA GODBERSON
The Luxe
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy, a vice which yields no return?
BALZAC
attributed, Day's Collacon
This only grant me, that my means may lie
Too low for envy, for contempt too high.
ABRAHAM COWLEY
Of Myself
What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Envy never enriched any man.
MONTGOMERY
attributed, Day's Collacon
There is no disappointment so numbing ... as someone no better than you achieving more.
JOSEPH HELLER
Good as Gold
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
Envy is a sickness growing from other men's happiness.
AURELIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space, feels itself excluded.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
PINDARUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Certainly, envy is no monopoly of the poor; it makes itself felt in all sections of society; it haunts the court, the library, the barrack-room, even the sanctuary; it is provoked in some unhappy souls by the near neighbourhood of any superior rank or excellence whatever.
HENRY PARRY LIDDON
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors.
SOCRATES
attributed, Day's Collacon
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
CHARLEY REESE
attributed, Quotable Quotes
In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything