Envy Quotes - Page 2

• Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jealousy, Stupid, Vices

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• Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

  Epicurus

  Philosophical, Loss, Nephew

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  It is better to be envied than pitied.

  Herodotus

  Envied

  Herodotus (1829). “Herodotus: Tr. from the Greek for the Use of General Readers; with Short Explanatory Notes”, p.212

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• I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Gratitude, Philosophical, Admiration

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• Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

  George Herbert

  Distance, Greatness, Greater

  Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.105

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• ...if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

  Mitch Albom

  Heart, Tuesdays With Morrie, People

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.127, Broadway Books

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• O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Tragedy, Green

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

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• Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

  Ovid

  Genius, Depreciate

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• It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

  Gore Vidal

  Failure, Political, Politics

  Quoted in Newport (R.I.) Daily News, 3 Nov. 1978

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

  John Gay

  May, Fool, Kind

  John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.76

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• Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

  Horace

  Mean, Golden, Poverty

  "Odes". Book by Horace, Book II, ode x, line 5, c. 23 BC, 13 BC.

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• The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

  Ovid

  Fields, Crops

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• Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

  Philip James Bailey

  Coal, Hot, Hell

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.86

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• Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

  Carrie Fisher

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

  Alexander Pope

  Brave, Mind, Emulation

  Alexander Pope (1804). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.71

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• The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

  Hesiod

  Successful, Artist, Rivals

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• It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

  Seneca the Younger

  Dog, Men, Practice

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, Of a Happy Life, Chapter XIX, 1922.

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• A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

  Hannah More

  Spirit, Cold, Envious

  Hannah More (1862). “The Life of Hannah More: With Selections from Her Correspondence”, p.38

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• Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

  Ross Macdonald

  Lying, Heart, Hell

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• Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Justice, Hypocrisy, Leader

  c.1874 Letter.

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• Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.

  Criss Jami

  Heart, Insecure, Love Is

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• The most destructive criticism is indifference.

  E. W. Howe

  Gossip, Criticism, Indifference

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• Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Suicide, Hope

  "Essays: First Series, Self-Reliance". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Gossip, Religion

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