Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Jealousy Quotes
Shakespeare leads by a long way, followed by Giannina Braschi, Horace, Seneca and La Rochefoucauld. George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860) is the best-sourced writer here, with two lines: anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love, and jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. Leonardo’s notebooks say envy wounds with false accusations.
Two entries are flagged misattributed. “The living will envy the dead” is credited to Nikita Khrushchev, and a remark that we are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is alive and praising him when he is dead is credited to Mimnermus.
Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
I am jealous of men. I envy the man his physical freedom to lead a double life.
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! — I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
There is no love;
There are only the various envies, all of them sad.