907 Quotes About Envy

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue