Quotes about Envy

Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.

So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. You've had a taste of God. Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God's pure kindness. Then you'll grow up mature and whole in God. 1 Peter 2:1—3

To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltiness of those dead sea apples.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

I've always been envious of certainty, of people who always seemed to have a plan for their lives.

Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.