"Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate."

Envy, Hate, Hatred

7

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate."

Exlpore more Envy quotes

"Envy is an insult to oneself."

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian Poet

Envy, Insult

"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."

Charles Churchill, English Poet

Envy, Resentment, Whim

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

Joseph Epstein, American Writer

Envy,

"If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang."

Charley Reese, American Writer

Envy, Malice

"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."

Griffin Dunne, American Actor

Envy,

"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

Envy, Talent, Conflict, Mediocrity

"Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace."

Horace, Roman Poet

Envy, Poverty

"Envy yearns to find flaws."

Wayne Gerard Trotman, British Author

Envy, Jealousy, Flaws, Insecurity

"As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Envy, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

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

George Bancroft, American Historian

Envy, Glory, Respect

Explore more quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will."

Will

"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do."

Character

"If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different."

Performance

"The little man is still a man."

Man

"I call architecture frozen music."

Architecture

"He is dead in this world who has no belief in another."

Trust

7

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Envy quotes

"Envy is an insult to oneself."

"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."

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

"If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang."

"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."

"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."

"Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace."

"Envy yearns to find flaws."

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

Explore more quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude."

"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

"First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."

"Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will."

"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do."

"If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different."

"The little man is still a man."

"I call architecture frozen music."

"He is dead in this world who has no belief in another."