907 Quotes About Envy

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness.

Envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness.

Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.