907 Quotes About Envy

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

Envy is littleness of soul.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

All envy is proportionate to desire.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one- third is rocked by the pangs of poverty, hunger and envy. More energy is released by the awakening of these new nations than by the fission of the atom itself.

The living will envy the dead.

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.

And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.