Envy Quotes

"There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy."

"Kannapolis is the envy of the nation."

"The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to bad end"

"Envy is the result of the effect that you have made on someone else's life, whether they want to accept it or not."

"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy"

"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."

"In a nutshell, there's growing resentment and envy among global consumers toward the U.S., and that sentiment is manifest in an erosion of support for American products. The danger here is that even a 1 or 2 percentage point decline is not good news for companies that want to grow."

"Imagination cannot make fools wise; but she can make them happy, to the envy of reason, who can only make her friends miserable"

"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."

"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."

"Greed is envy with its sleeves rolled up."

"Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate."

"King County has completed a remarkable financial turnaround that any corporation would envy."

"No, there's not a lot to envy about the old days. But something has been lost."

"Apple's margins are the envy of the entire PC industry."

"I was the envy of our neighborhood touch football gang."

"Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself."

"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."

"Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace."

"The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous."