Quotes About Envy

Bones was lost in the sweat on her exquisitely sweating body. He was jealous of her sweat. He wanted to be her sweat. Even through the viewfinder he could see her ribcage pressing against her leotard like a musical instrument. He wanted to play her long into the night.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

If looks could kill—there would have been wholesale murder that day.

Fools only crib about what they do not have. They do not count their blessings.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

The need to bring down to our own wretched level, to deface, to deride and debunk any splendour that is towering above us, is probably the saddest urge of human nature.

I'm not crazy. I know what I'm doing. You're just jealous because the voices only speak to me.

Leí una vez que la memoria de los peces de colores solo duran cinco segundos. Les envidio. Mis recuerdos con Alex, mi amor por él, me durarán toda la vida.

There's no coward like a hater.

People love to see people fall.

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

I'd love to spend a day being supermodel beautiful.

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

People say that envy is a deadly sin, but I disagree. I love watching a person do something that I can't. I find it to be incredibly motivating.

Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

I love meeting famous people. I'm even happy just looking at them.

I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.

People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

For the first time in his life, he was resentful of the Duke's great elegance and average stature, his high lineage and incomputable wealth. Hitherto, these things had been too remote for envy.

Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry. We resented each other. She envied me my beauty, my dress. I envied the little fool her privilege of being always near to you.

the dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.