Quotations about Envy


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