Peter Kreeft Quotes

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.

Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

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

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

Envy bestrides praise.

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

No one would deny that feeling envy is unpleasant, or that feeling envious sometimes leads us down a path we wish we hadn't taken. Envy is frequently corrosive and destructive.

Jealousy is a hell of a thing. There's a reason it's one of the deadly sins.

Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.

Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.