Mark Twain Quotes about Envy

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

Jealousy, Envy, Gossip

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.75, Courier Corporation

Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are.

Mark Twain

Smart, Editors, Envy

Mark Twain (2014). “What Is Man? (Annotated Edition)”, p.138, Jazzybee Verlag

We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.

Mark Twain

Daughter, America, Envy

Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.80, Univ of Wisconsin Press