Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Envy / Jealousy.
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.
Minna Antrim
Nothing sharpens sight like envy.
Thomas Fuller
Envy eats nothing, but its own heart.
Proverb
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
Washington Irving
Envy aims very high.
Ovid
I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.
William Shakespeare
The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
Joseph Addison
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
Francis Bacon
There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of ones fellow man.
Groucho Marx
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
Oscar Wilde
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Gore Vidal, "quoted in Sunday Ti
Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
George Meredith
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
William Hogarth
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
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
John Berger
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
