Envy Quotes

“Of all the seven deadly sins, only Envy is no fun at all.”
― Joseph Epstein, Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins

“It is difficult to be ambitious without also being envious.”
― Joseph Epstein, Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins

“...that envy and a sense of injustice are not always that easily distinguished, let alone extricated, one from the other.”
― Joseph Epstein, Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins

“The Greeks took envy to be part of human nature, running at differing intensities in differing people, but always there, ever ready to emerge, like a coiled snake, seemingly asleep but easily stirred into poisonous attack.”
― Joseph Epstein, Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins

“Most of us could still sleep decently if accused of any of the other six deadly sins; but to be accused of envy would be seriously distressing, so clearly does such an accusation go directly to character.”
― Joseph Epstein, Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins

“The job, in Schopenhauer’s steady view, is rarely brought off in a successful way. For in “the boundless egotism of our nature there is joined more or less in every human breast a fund of hatred, anger, envy, rancor, and malice, accumulated like the venom in a serpent’s tooth, and waiting only an opportunity of venting itself and then, like a demon unchained, of storming and raging.” Not exactly what we should nowadays call a fun guy, Schopenhauer.”
― Joseph Epstein, Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins