Envy

Famous quotes containing the word envy:

“Great is my envy of death whose curt hard sword
Carried her whom I called my life away;
Me he disdains, and mocks me from her eyes!”
—Petrarch (1304–1374)

“Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)