Quotes of Envy - somelinesforyou

“ Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like the shadow, proves the substance true. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. ”

- John Gay

“ The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world. ”

- Young

“ It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ”

- Aeschylus

“ Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him. ”

- Ovid

“ Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. Author:. ”

- Ovid

“ The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy. ”

- Unknown

“ Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. ”

- Oscar Levant

“ Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him. ”

- Bible

“ Our envy of others devours us most of all. ”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“ Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. ”

- Arthur Chapman

“ It is better to be envied than pitied. ”

- Herodotus

“ Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want. ”

- Robert Bringle

“ Envy is the ulcer of the soul. ”

- Socrates

“ Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Envy aims very high. ”

- Ovid

“ Envy and wrath shorten the life. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Envy is a kind of praise. ”

- John Gay

“ Envy is an insult to oneself. ”

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“ Envy is honor's foe. ”

- Motto

“ Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune. ”

- William Hazlitt
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