Top Envy Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Envy quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Conrad Black
The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded by soul-destroying envy, to intimidate all those who might aspire to anything the slightest exceptional.
- Conrad Black
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Image of Elizabeth Montagu
it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.
- Elizabeth Montagu
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Image of Meghan O'Rourke
I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.
- Meghan O'Rourke
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Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
Envy is a declaration of inferiority.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Image of Pliny the Elder
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
- Pliny the Elder
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Image of Giovanni Boccaccio
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
- Giovanni Boccaccio
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Image of Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.
- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Image of Marie Howe
Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.
- Marie Howe
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Image of Toby Young
I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today.
- Toby Young
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Image of Tavis Smiley
Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.
- Tavis Smiley
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Image of Pindar
Envy bestrides praise.
- Pindar
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Image of Roger Waters
Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned
- Roger Waters
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Image of Emily Post
Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.
- Emily Post
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Image of Herodotus
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
- Herodotus
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Image of Herodotus
It is better to be envied than pitied.
- Herodotus
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Image of Bo Sanchez
Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting.
- Bo Sanchez
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Image of Dorothee Solle
A competitive society is a society of envy.
- Dorothee Solle
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Image of Ada Leverson
envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.
- Ada Leverson
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Image of Washington Allston
The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
- Washington Allston
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Image of Giannina Braschi
Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.
- Giannina Braschi
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Image of Charles Churchill
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
- Charles Churchill
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Image of Susan Cain
Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.
- Susan Cain
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Image of Robert Kuttner
As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.
- Robert Kuttner
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Image of Nelson Rodrigues
I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.
- Nelson Rodrigues
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Image of Delarivier Manley
the truly covetous have never enough!
- Delarivier Manley
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Image of Truman Capote
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
- Truman Capote
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Image of Jeremy Collier
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.
- Jeremy Collier
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Image of Robert Ringer
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.
- Robert Ringer
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Image of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial règime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic; there is, as we have said, little doubt that the American Congress and the French Chambre have a power over their respective nations which would rouse the envy of a Louis XIV or a George III were they alive today.
- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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Image of Luis Suarez
I'm not envious of Leo [Messi]or Ney [Neymar]. Why would I be? If there is envy in the dressing room, you know it's only going to affect results.
- Luis Suarez
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Image of Sydney Thompson Dobell
Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.
- Sydney Thompson Dobell
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Image of Henry Fuseli
Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.
- Henry Fuseli
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Image of Bonnie Friedman
Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.
- Bonnie Friedman
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Image of Claudius Claudianus
Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.
- Claudius Claudianus
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Image of Griffin Dunne
On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.
- Griffin Dunne
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Image of Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.
- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Image of Dominic Lawson
In a boom, envy; in a bust, anger.
- Dominic Lawson
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Image of Philippe Couillard
In Quebec, our goal isn't to reduce daycare service - a program the entire world envies - but to make it viable so tomorrow's families can keep benefiting from it.
- Philippe Couillard
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Image of Igor Babailov
Envy derives from insecurity.
- Igor Babailov
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Image of Arthur Chapman
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
- Arthur Chapman
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Image of Martin Amis
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.
- Martin Amis
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Image of Betty Dodson
The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.
- Betty Dodson
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Image of Mengistu Haile Mariam
Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.
- Mengistu Haile Mariam
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Image of Robert Lembke
Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.
- Robert Lembke
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Image of T. B. Joshua
Don't envy those who make their wealth in an ungodly way. The wicked SEEM to prosper now and live without a care but they will spend eternity in terror and despair.
- T. B. Joshua
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Image of Charlotte Lennox
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
- Charlotte Lennox
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Image of Gerald Stern
Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not envy those which - who - are.
- Gerald Stern
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Image of John Gay
Envy is a kind of praise.
- John Gay
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