907 Quotes About Envy

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting.

We are savages insides. We all want to be the chosen, the beloved, the esteemed. There isn't a person reading this who hasn't at one point or another had that why not me? voice pop into the interior mix when something good has happened to someone else.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.