Envy

Famous quotes containing the word envy:

“Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise.
For envy is a kind of praise.”
—John Gay (1685–1732)

“Great is my envy of you, earth, in your greed
Folding her in invisible embrace,
Denying me the look of the sweet face
Where I found peace from all my strife at need!”
—Petrarch (1304–1374)

“Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)