Quotes About Envy

I got no idea wht a writer of a book should have respect. Or even get the time of day, unless he's a prophet. It's a sign of our present-day hell. Books, think about it, the writer of a book does envy, sloth, gluttony, lust, larceny, greed or what? Oh, vanity. He don't miss a single one of them. He is a peeping Tom, an onanist, a busybody, and he's faking humility every one of God's minutes.

men know that Churchill was stating a broad truth about an important matter. You liberals are nationalizing everything you can in our society. But, listen up: it isn't yours! It shouldn't be nationalized just because it is big! And you're probably just envious anyway!

Often, people with a Scarcity Mentality harbor secret hopes that others might suffer misfortune—not terrible misfortune, but acceptable misfortune that would keep them "in their place." They're always comparing, always competing. They give their energies to possessing things or other people in order to increase their sense of worth.

When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.

people are happy when they feel better off than their neighbors, unhappy when they feel worse off.

As Homer Simpson said to Marge when she warned him that he would regret his conduct, "That's a problem for future Homer. Man, I don't envy that guy.

For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Jealousy is not love, but self-love.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

No matter how good you are at something, or how you rank your accomplishments, there is someone out there who makes you look incompetent.

You no longer have to be envious, because you no longer know that someone else truly has it better. You no longer have to be frustrated, because you have learned to aim low, and to be patient. You are discovering who you are, and what you want, and what you are willing to do. You are finding that the solutions to your particular problems have to be tailored to you, personally and precisely. You are less concerned with the actions of other people, because you have plenty to do yourself.