A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
Xun Zi

A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
Bill Owens

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
Abraham Cahan

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
Imelda Staunton

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Roger Tory Peterson

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
George Bancroft

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Heinrich Heine

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha

Envy aims very high.
Ovid

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
William Hazlitt

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jean Vanier

Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Envy is human nature.
Monica Bellucci

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
Arthur Chapman

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
Joseph Epstein

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
Harold Coffin

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
Titus Livius

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
Francis Beaumont

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
Jacopo Sannazaro