Envy Quotes

"O envy! root of infinite evils and canker-worm of virtues!"

Miguel de Cervantes

"Envy shoots at others and wounds herself."

Thomas Fuller

"Envy never enriched any man."

Thomas Fuller

"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."

"The envious praise me unknowingly."

Kahlil Gibran

"Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own."

Harold Coffin

"O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!"

"Envy is hatred, insofar as it affects a man so that he is saddened by another's good fortune and rejoices in another's misfortune."

Baruch Spinoza

"Envy is a propensity to view the well-being of others with distress, even though it does not detract from one's own."

Immanuel Kant

"Pride, Envy, and Avarice are the three sparks that have set these hearts on fire."

Dante Alighieri

"Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all."

Joseph Epstein

"Envy itself is enough to ruin the envious, even if they have no enemies."

Thiruvalluvar

"It is easy to despise what you cannot get."

Aesop

"Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbour, will feel a pleasure in the reverse."

"Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want."

Jonathan Swift

"Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay."

"Remember that unjust criticism is often a disguised compliment."

Dale Carnegie

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

Albert Einstein

"The grass is always greener over the septic tank."

Erma Bombeck

“Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased.”

The Bible (Psalm 49:16)

“The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.”