Envy Quotes - Page 15

• The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.

  Miguel

  Hate, Sadness, Hypocrisy

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• Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.

  John Stott

  Vanity, Coins, Proud

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, p.57, InterVarsity Press

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• Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Hate, Hatred, Vices

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• You may envy every one, but no one envies you.

  Martial

  May

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• Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.

  Willa Cather

  Play, Loyal, Fiddle

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.77, Vintage

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• Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

  Ouida

  Emulation, Virtue, Brooding

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• Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Power, Innocent, Eminence

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1846). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated”, p.23

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• Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Daughter, Children, Ambition

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• The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Judgment, Malevolence, Posterity

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• Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

  Edmund Spenser

  Fire, Rising, Glory

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• Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.

  Wesley Pruden

  Greed, Replaced

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• This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Wall, War

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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• 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 the Younger

  Money, Loss, Evil

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• Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Praise, Pleasure

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• In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ambition, People, Emulation

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.74, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Kindness, Hate

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• A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Ease

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Kandinsky”, p.59, Parkstone International

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• They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge... no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command... But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Mind, May, Creation

  "Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1962.

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• Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.

  Robert Greene

  Smart, Order, Perfect

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.16, Profile Books

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• There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

  Marie Dressler

  Success, Differences, Twenties

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• In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and ultimately on a vicious urge to lash out against others for the pain of ones own insignificance. That has been a common thread in things as disparate as ghetto riots, two world wars, and now Islamic terrorism.

  Thomas Sowell

  Pain, War, Islamic

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• Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.

  Helmut Schoeck

  Thinking, Causes, Elements

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• What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at.

  Charlie Munger

  Fun, Sin

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• There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

  Aeschylus

  People, Achievement, Honor

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