Envy Quotes

You're 10 and you have an ipad? When I was your age I had an imagination. - Unknown

You make it so hard to be friendly when I know part of it's envy. - Unknown

You can't stand when I have my eyes set on someone else, but don't you realize that I go weak when I'm around you. I always laugh and smile at your jokes even when they're not funny. I take every single chance I have to talk to you. You make me melt in many different ways. I'm crazy about you, but would I ever confess this? I don't think I ever will. It's not that I'm scared. It's just that, you'll never feel the same way. - Unknown

You can't be envious and happy at the same time. - Frank Tyger

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. - Henry Louis Gates

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride. - Arthur C. Brooks

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? / Open rebuke is better than secret love. - Bible

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. - Henry Fielding