“I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.”
Quote by Ben Hecht
Author
You May Also Like
“I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.”
“Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.”
“I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.”
Source: The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)