85 phrases for envious, lying and false people
Envy is one of the most dangerous and nefarious feelings of people, since it is only capable of engendering negative energies around you, consuming the motivation of those who feel it and affecting the object of their negativity. In addition, this feeling can lead to other harmful actions such as lies and hypocrisy, turning people who seem to be kind, into totally false beings.
Below you will be able to know some important phrases about these negative emotions that will make you think about those who are next to you.
- We recommend you read: "The 4 differences between jealousy and envy"
Phrases for envious, lying and false people
Envy never leads to anything good or serves as an impulse to move forward because there will always be something desired that can never be obtained.
1. Envy is the rodent worm of merit and glory. (Francis Bacon)
In reality what is envied is the success of others.
2. Many want everything to go well for you, as long as you do not do better than them.
Not everyone has the ability to accept and rejoice in the happiness of those around them.
3. He who tells a lie does not know what task he has assumed, because he will be obliged to invent twenty more to maintain the certainty of this first. (Alexander Pope)
A liar person always ends up finding himself alone.
4. If you want to expel a fake person from your life, stick to this advice: do just the opposite of what he expects of you. (Marta Gargoles)
Fake people will try to do with your life what they cannot do with theirs.
5. You cannot be envious and happy at the same time. Choose what you want to be.
No one who is truly happy can envy what the other has.
6. Envy in men shows how miserable they feel, and their constant attention to what others are doing or not doing shows how bored they are. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Envious people are those who are dissatisfied with their life.
7. People are like coins; they almost always have two faces.
Not all are actually what they appear to be.
8. Evil walks hand in hand with the envy that generates it.
There is only one goal for those who have envy in their hearts: to destroy the success of others.
9. Before it catches the liar to the lame. (Spanish saying)
A liar can never keep his story from him for long.
10. In the shadow of merit, envy grows. (Leandro Fernández de Moratín)
If you are successful, you will have many envious people behind you.
11. Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Envy has no expiration date, because there is always a new reason to envy.
12. Those who criticize others often reveal their own shortcomings. (Anonymous)
Criticisms are often frustrated wishes.
13. Envy and jealousy are not vices or virtues, but penalties. (Jeremy Bentham)
Negative emotions come from our own unhappiness.
14. Do not criticize what you did not have to live or feel. (Anonymous)
We cannot judge or criticize what we only see from afar.
15. With a lie he usually goes very far, but without hope of returning. (Jewish proverb)
Lying can open some doors, but many things are lost that are almost impossible to recover.
16. Not that you lied to me, that I can no longer believe you, that terrifies me. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Once someone lies to you, it is difficult to trust that person again.
17. Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
Envy causes perception to be distorted.
18. Envy is so skinny and yellow because it bites and does not eat. (Francisco de Quevedo)
It is useless to envy the other, since you can never have what he possesses.
19. Slander is the daughter of ignorance and the twin sister of envy. (Francisco Romero Robledo)
Envy leads people to do very low acts.
20. Freedom is the right of every man to be honest, to think and speak without hypocrisy. (Jose Marti)
Hypocrisy has no prosperous end.
21. A lie is like a snowball; the more it rolls, the bigger it gets. (Martin Luther)
When someone lies he always has to be inventing more and more things until he loses his way to the truth.
22. And I thought that Judas had died... (Anonymous)
We are never free from some betrayal.
23. Wrath is cruel, and fury is fierce; but who can stand before envy? (He who guards his mouth guards his soul; but he who opens his lips wide will have calamity. (Solomon)
Envy only brings sorrow and tragedy.
24. People only throw rocks at what shines brighter than them.
This is because they cannot tolerate someone being more than them.
25. O envy, root of infinite evils and rottenness of virtues! (Miguel de Cervantes)
All evil is rooted in envy.
26. Envy is a declaration of inferiority. (Napoleon I)
People envy because they feel less than others.
27. That person with the same mouth that tells you "I love you", said to me "with you forever"... (Anonymous)
Not all displays of love are sincere.
28. False people are like clouds, when they disappear the day shines brighter.
When you feel that someone around you does not bring you any benefit, push them away.
29. Envy is the art of counting the blessings of others and not your own.
Those who envy neglect the course of their own life.
30. When you have made a mistake, do not lie to deny or mitigate it. Lying is a clumsy weakness. Accept that you were wrong; there is magnanimity in it. (Silvio Pellico)
The only way to make up for a mistake is to admit it and work to repair it, rather than lying to hide it, because that just creates a bad image of you.
31. Punish those who are envious by doing them good. (Arabic proverb)
The worst punishment for the envious is to keep seeing the happiness of those who hate.
32. Envy feeds only on your own heart. (Proverb)
Jealous people will continue to be jealous if they don't work on themselves to improve.
33. Do not envy the wealth of others. (Homer)
When all attention is focused on envying the prosperity of the other, we deviate from achieving our own abundance.
34. The lies were delicious, I almost swallowed them all! (Anonymous)
There is nothing more despicable than having trusted someone who has done nothing but blatantly lie to you.
35. Given the reiterated, and in the absence of anyone who contradicts, everyone believes, which does not mean knowing. (Fernando de la Rúa)
Many sin to know everything when in fact they are ignorant.
36. The "forever" of some, lasts the same as the battery of an IPhone. (Anonymous)
Not all promises are sincere.
37. Where envy reigns, virtue cannot live, nor where there is a shortage of liberality. (Miguel de Cervantes)
There is nothing virtuous about resenting someone's achievement and doing what you can to bring them down.
38. If you cannot live without treating me well, you must learn to live far from me. (Frida Kahlo)
It is better to have jealous people out of your life, even if they are the closest to you.
39. From time to time tell the truth so that they believe you when you lie. (Jules Renard)
There are those who manage to disguise the truth with the lie in an impressive and horrifying way.
40. Watch out for fake people: once they stop talking to you, they will start talking about you.
Those who envy you will try to spread a very bad version of you.
41. Envy is so ugly that it always walks the world in disguise, and never more hateful than when it pretends to disguise itself as justice. (Jacinto Benavente)
Sometimes envy tends to disguise itself as good deeds just to smear its victims.
42. What is an envious? An ingrate who hates the light that illuminates and warms him. (Victor Hugo)
Just because they prefer everyone to live in misery, for them to stand out.
43. Those who hate only hate the people they envy and what they cannot have.
The reason for all resentment and jealousy is the inability to have something.
44. The envious man grows thin when he sees the opulence of his neighbor. (Horacio)
The envious cannot tolerate someone else to shine.
45. The truest situations always expose the truest friends.
Fake people are at some point exposed.
46. In other people's fields, the harvest is always more abundant. (Ovid)
Resentful people always see those who hate having more than they do, even though they actually have the same opportunities to grow.
47. Of all the ways to fool others, the serious pose is the one that wreaks the most havoc. (Santiago Rusiñol)
Those who promise to do good when they seek to harm others are the worst class of people there is.
48. False people are like shadows; They are by your side when everything shines and in the darkest moments they disappear.
You can know who is sincere when they stand by your side in the most difficult times, instead of just being in your triumphs.
49. Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite. (Proverb)
Hypocritical people never achieve anything in the long run.
50. I'd rather surround myself with people who reveal their imperfection than surround myself with people who fake their perfection. (Charles F. Glassman)
Showing your weaknesses is the best way to be honest.
51. The envious man may die, but he never envies her. (Molière)
There will always be someone new who will envy you.
52. The liar's punishment is not to be believed, even when he tells the truth. (Aristotle)
At some point the lying people will be left alone, because no one will be able to tolerate their lies.
53. No one who trusts himself envies the virtue of the other. (Cicero)
Confident people are able to appreciate the strengths of others.
54. The tongue is like a sharp knife, it kills without drawing blood. (Buddha)
Words have the power to create internal wounds that cannot be easily healed.
55. Whoever betrays his own betrays himself.
When we hurt someone, a perpetual void is created within us.
56. The cruelest lies are told in silence. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
There is nothing worse than someone who does the opposite of what he tells you.
57. If you stand out, you will generate envy. Only those who do not stand out are those who do not generate envy.
If they envy you, it is because you are doing something good.
58. There are people who when they finish talking to you, the next minute they start talking bad about you. (Anonymous)
Fake people are those who claim to be faithful to you, but do not miss the opportunity to defame you.
59. Envy is caused by seeing another enjoy what we want; jealousy, to see another possess what we would like to possess ourselves. (Diogenes Laertius)
We only generate unease in our being when we see that someone else is or has what we want to be or have.
60. The silence of the envious is full of noises. (Gibran)
Not all the envious speak, some just act carefully.
61. As soon as man leaves envy he begins to prepare himself to enter the path of bliss. (Wallace Stevens)
The only way to enjoy what we have and seek to grow is to put aside any resentment.
62. Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth. (Lillian Hellman)
Unfortunately, there are times when it takes lethality to tell a truth.
63. Envy and hatred are always linked, they strengthen each other by the fact of pursuing the same goal. (Jean de la Bruyère)
Envying someone is only synonymous with hating them, since all you want is to annoy them.
64. What's the point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside? (Jess C. Scott)
External beauty is useless if someone is rotten inside.
65. One should examine oneself for a long time before condemning others. (Molière)
You cannot judge anyone without judging ourselves.
66. A half empty glass of wine is also a half full one, but a half lie is by no means a half truth. (Jean Cocteau)
The "white" lies, even if they are not intended to hurt, are still lies.
67. The envy that talks and screams is always unskilled; one must fear enough in the one that is silent. (Rivarol)
The envy that affects the most is that which is demonstrated with actions rather than criticism.
68. Whoever wants to be an eagle, let him fly. Whoever wants to be a worm, crawl, but don't scream when trampled! (Emiliano Zapata)
Those who complain about what others have, only have excuses not to emerge.
69. If there were only one immortal man he would be killed by the envious. (Chumy Chúmez)
A phrase that clearly explains how envy works.
70. The one who is happy, it shows: he does not envy, he does not criticize and he does not judge.
People who are happy are those who have nothing more than to give good wishes to others.
71. Healthy envy does not exist: unfortunately, all envy causes discomfort and is a detriment to achieve our purposes. (Jonathan García-Allen)
Every feeling of malice that is generated within us is an alert that we must listen to.
72. The evil of slander is similar to an oil stain: it always leaves traces. (Napoleon)
When you speak ill of someone, it can ruin your course.
73. An envious man never forgives merit. (Pierre Corneille)
For resentful people, someone else's achievement equals betrayal.
74. I love fake people as long as they are mannequins. (Pushpa Rana)
The only false people we should accept in our lives.
75. Some people are so false that they are no longer aware that they think the exact opposite of what they say. (Marcel Aymé)
Fake people get to a point where they can't recognize what they hate.
76. You have to have a good memory after you've lied. (Pierre Corneille)
The only way to sustain a lie is to remember every detail you gave it.
77. No one is really worth envy. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
We all have the same opportunities to grow, in different directions.
78. Good people bring us happiness. Fake people, experience. (Anonymous)
If you run into someone negative, take their interaction as a way to acknowledge the bad people in your life.
79. Envy is a thousand times more terrible than hunger, because it is spiritual hunger. (Miguel de Unamuno)
Envy tends to consume the people who feel it, to the point of creating a perpetual emptiness.
80. Ignorance is the mother of evil and all other vices. (Galileo Galilei)
It is easy to envy a person, because we are ignorant of everything they have gone through to get where they are.
81. Slander is like counterfeit currency: many who had not coined it in any way circulate it unscrupulously. (Countess Diane)
No one thinks twice about slandering someone, especially if they don't like it.
82. He who receives what he cannot pay is deceiving. (Seneca)
We tend to cheat so as not to discover or accept our mistakes.
83. Envy is the most fortunate adversary. (Epictetus)
Those who succeed are always exposed to the envy of others.
84. Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends can be your enemies. (Sara Shepard)
Although it pains us to admit it, sometimes those who are closest to us are the ones who cause us the worst injuries.
85. The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies sincerely. (André Gide)
Those who normalize their hatred will never again have the ability to appreciate anything.