envy quotes

• Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. (Henry Fielding) [envy]
• None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. (Francis Bacon) [envy]
• For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced. (Francis Bacon) [wisdom/men/envy/rest]
• Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [envy]
• Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. (Henry Fielding) [envy]
• The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment. (Betty Friedan) [women/envy/women/science]
• Nothing sharpens sight like envy. (Thomas Fuller) [envy]
• Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. (John Gay) [envy/envy]
• Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [hatred/envy/envy]
• Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. (William Hazlitt) [envy/love//more]
• 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. (Ben Hecht) [wealth/envy/guilt]
• I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation. (Dustin Hoffman) [envy/people/look/wonder]
• Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums. (Samuel Johnson) [enjoyment/destroy/envy/human]
• Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. (Samuel Johnson) [youth/envy]
• The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [being/envy]
• Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [envy/more/hatred]
• The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the productive man a yet higher species. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [desire/jealousy/envy]
• Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him. ( Ovid) [envy/death]
• Envy aims very high. ( Ovid) [envy/high]
• The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. (Jim Rohn) [envy/watch]
• Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. (Theodore Roosevelt) [wealth/abstinence/envy/hatred]
• No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us. ( Seneca) [evil/money/envy/loss]
• When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people. ( Seneca) [think/envy/people]
• I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. (Susan Sontag) [envy/people/attention]
• Pity is for living, envy is for dead. (Mark Twain) [pity/envy]
• I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women. (Cary Elwes) [envy/willpower/women]

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