Famous quotations, sayings and proverbs about Envy.
- “Better be envied than pitied.” English Proverb
- "Envy shoots at others and wounds itself." English Proverb
- "Kiss the hand of your enemy if you cannot chop it off: Envy has no rest." Arabian Proverb
- "One measures the towers by their shadows and great people by those who envy them." Chinese Proverb
- "The torment of envy is like a grain of sand in the eye." Chinese Proverb
- "Envy does not enter empty house." Danish Proverb
- "If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill." Danish Proverb
- "Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself." Danish Proverb
- "Those who envy die, but envy stays alive." French Proverb
- "Envy eats nothing but its own heart." German Proverb
- "The enemy's own punishment is his envy." Indian Proverb
- "After honor and state follow envy and hate." Dutch Proverb