907 Quotes About Envy

You can't be envious and happy at the same time

I envy the perseverance of everybody in this school. And I know how much they must look up to Terry.

Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.

To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.

The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.

No revenge is so heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.

After a while you have to envy these people because they have community.

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.