Quotes About Envy

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment.

envied. I gathered they'd just returned from some kind of bridge-oriented cruise in which baby slams and gourmet foods were served up in equal measure. Much talk of no-trump, double finesses, and Sheinwold, whose strategies they were

Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.

At that moment she seemed everything I was not, and this came as a small revelation. I had hated in her what I lacked in myself.

Ich beneidete die Schildkroeten um ihre Panzer in denen sie jederzeit verschwinden konnten.

I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.

I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.

We always glamorize what we don't have

When you know all of those things exist for other people but not for you, sometimes it's very hard to endure the not having.

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another's ambitiousness.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house.

When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I'm alienated from society. That doesn't mean I have anything against other people. Envy them?

He shrugged off his finely tailored coat and handed it to a footman. Joanna shot a sharp look at several ladies who had the effrontery to sigh while staring at him. They looked like ravenous bitches. As in dogs, of course, never would she even think the impolite meaning of that term. Perhaps there was something to Royce's fox hunting allusion after all.

But it has been my way—as a woman, but also as a writer—to speak of the kinds of human experience so many of us are taught to believe we should keep hidden. I am speaking here of those so-called "shameful" emotions like envy, anger, self-pity, vanity, pride—the moments I believe all of us experience in which we display our least heroic but possibly most human selves. Over my many years as a writer, I

The clock of my heart and the clock of my body have never shown the same time. I envy people who are synchronized, who are always their proper age. They have the secret of easy living.

The only thing worse than constantly seeing what you can't have is constantly seeing what you must have.

To me, egotists seem bloated, flatulent. They watch out for number one, peer down their noses at you, and tend to be jealous or envious. (Still, egotists usually have varying capacities for empathy and love compared to narcissists, who're typically more incapacitated in these areas.)

I know how tempting it is to believe that something outside—a great job, meeting Mr. or Ms. Right, winning the lottery— can make you feel okay and mollify envy. For a while these may seem to work, but an outer fix alone, no matter how gratifying, can't sustain self-esteem.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Il n'est pas nécessaire de mépriser les riches, il suffit de ne pas les envier.

If looks could have killed, Susan would have been bleeding profusely from the forehead.