Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
Simone Weil

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
Stendhal

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Petrarch

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
John Berger

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
Charles Olson

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.
Cary Elwes

I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.
Louise Brown

I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.
Deidre Hall

I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.
Jeremy Irons

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
Susan Sontag

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
Dustin Hoffman

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant

I envy the dead.
William Mulholland

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
Sherwood Anderson

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
Paul Getty

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
Ben Hecht