Quotes on envy
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
Ovid
"What's with him?" "Laser envy."
Author, Unknown
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Heraclitus
Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.
Proverb, Spanish
Do not envy a sinner you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Bible
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus
I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.
Hal
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
Author, Unknown
Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both.
Burton, Robert
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.
Antisthenes
There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all.
Author, Unknown