E Quotes
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“Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the measure of happiness abated. It laments over prosperity, and sickens at the sight of health. It oftentimes wants spirit as well as good nature.”
“Envy is an indispensable member of our society and somewhat a loyal friend of our society; its fruits can be sweeter or bitter; it pushes people to take different steps with different motive and understanding. Envy can be good, however, if there is one fearful enemy in our society we must arrest with all our true strength, wisdom and might, it must be envy!”
“Envy is an insult to oneself.”
Source: Early Poems
“Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.”
Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations
“Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.”
“Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue”
“Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est”
“Envy is but the smoke of low estate,
Ascending still against the fortunate.”
“Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.”
“Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes
“Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.”
Source: The Elder Statesman
“Envy is human nature.”
“Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.”
“Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.”
“Envy is littleness of soul.”
“Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.”
“Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.”
“Envy is much like a heart that sheds innocent blood, but brands itself the dam to a magnificent flood: menacing you'll become to what could lift you above - not from your hands it starts, but your inner parts it loves.”
“Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.”
Source: Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins
“Envy is not to be conquered but by death.”
“Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.”
Source: Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of
“Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in community, and from affirming people's unique worth. It also steals contentment from the heart. Is there anything or anyone you are envious of?”
“Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.”
Source: Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life
“Envy is Pride's infection on inspiration...while Angered then Eaten by the Greed of a Lazy Lust.”
“Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.”
Source: The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and Appendices
“Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.”
Source: Enchiridion
“Envy is the basis of democracy.”
“Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned”
“Envy is the central fact of American life.”
Source: Conversations with Gore Vidal
“Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.”
Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.
“Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.”
“Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.”
“Envy is the desire to have what someone else has. Jealousy is the fear of losing what you have. The more insecure you are about yourself or your relationship, the more jealous you are, because you are afraid to lose your significant other to someone else.”
Source: Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends
“Envy is the first emotion fools experience whenever they see a genius.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.”
“Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.”
“Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Envy is the religion of the mediocre”
“Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.”
Source: The Cross of Christ
“Envy is the root of evil.”
“Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos.”
“Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826
“Envy is the ulcer of the soul.”
“Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'”
“Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.”
Source: Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World
“Envy leads to evil.”
“Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.”
“Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.”
“Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.”
“Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.”