Quotes About Envy

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

Seeing the rich and famous screw up makes us feel superior, or at least not quite so inferior.

A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

I'd love to have legs like supermodel Gisele Bundchen!

Everybody who's anybody has been competitive and over-sensitive and a bit silly. Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.

I've learned that I've just barely scratched the surface of knowledge of the profession, and I have deep envy of and appreciation for filmmakers who really, truly understand the physics, the design of filmmaking. They can do story and color and composition and geometry and math and science all at once.

When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.

It's surreal, Glasgow. It's got a really black sense of humor and I remember being envious of John Glazer beating me to it on the sci-fi in Glasgow with 'Under the Skin.'

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.

To hell with the rich, they make me sick.

There's always something to do if you don't have to work or consider the cost. It's no real fun but the rich don't know that. They never had any. They never want anything very hard except maybe somebody else's wife and that's a pretty pale desire compared with the way a plumber's wife wants new curtains for the living room.

They never had any. They never want anything very hard except maybe somebody else's wife and that's a pretty pale desire compared with the way a plumber's wife wants new curtains for the living room." I didn't say anything.

There's always something to do if you don't have to work or consider the cost. It's no real fun, but the rich don't know that. They never had any. They never want anything very hard except maybe somebody else's wife and that's a pretty pale desire compared with the way a plumber's wife wants new curtains for the living room.

For mothers, some mothers, my mother, daughters are division and sons are multiplication; the former reduce them, fracture them, take from them, the latter augment and enhance. My mother, who would light up at the thought that my brothers were handsome, rankled at the idea that I might be nice-looking. The queen's envy of Snow White is deadly.

the birds] were the yellow of all yellows, the kind of yellow that every other yellow secretly wishes to be.

You sons-of-bitches all have bicycles! he said, I'll have a bicycle someday!

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

MARIA. Well I'll not debate how far Scandal may be allowable — but in a man I am sure it is always contemtable. — We have Pride, envy, Rivalship, and a Thousand motives to depreciate each other — but the male-slanderer must have the cowardice of a woman before He can traduce one.

People envy me, people hate me. It is the price of success." This was news to me. People hate me on a dozen different worlds, and I've never considered myself a successful man.

Jealousy is always a mask for fear: fear that we aren't able to get what we want; frustration that somebody else seems to be getting what is rightfully ours even if we are too frightened to reach for it. At its root, jealousy is a stingy emotion.

Jealousy tells us there is room for only one—one poet, one painter, one whatever you dream of being.

Your jealousy map will have three columns. In the first column, name those whom you are jealous of. Next to each name write why. Be as specific and accurate as you can. In the third column, list one action you can take to move toward creative risk and out of jealousy.

Julie's cookery is actually improving, Paul wrote Charlie [his twin]. I didn't quite believe it would, just between us, but it really is . It's simpler, more classical.... I envy her this chance. It would be such fun to be doing it at the same time with her.