Quotes About Envy

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

those, who are believed to be most self—abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious

ceux que l'on croit être le plus pleins de mésestime d'eux-mêmes et d'humilité, sont généralement le plus pleins d'ambition et d'envie

Nevertheless, faithfully interrogate your own souls, whether ye have not been unduly puffed up by your integrity, and continence, and chastity; and whether ye have not been so desirous of the human praise that is accorded to these virtues, that ye have envied some who possessed them.

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

The desire to ascend in the social scale does not make itself felt until the intellect awakens. Up to the tenth, and often up to the fifteenth year, almost every child belonging to a well-to-do family envies its proletarian schoolmates, to whom so many things are permissible which for the "respectable" are placed under taboo.

No envy is more mean than that of small-minded beings when they see a neighbor lifted, as though borne aloft by angels, out of the dull drudgery of their common existence; petty spirits are more ready to forgive a prince the most fabulous wealth than a fellow-sufferer beneath the same yoke the smallest degree of freedom.

With secret envy Christine thought: If only I could go back to taking pleasure in such little things, instead of yearning for the impossible.

No envy is more mean than that of small-minded beings when they see a neighbour lifted, as though borne aloft by angels, out of the dull drudgery of their common existence; petty spirits are more ready to forgive a prince the most fabulous wealth rather than a fellow-sufferer beneath the same yoke the smallest degree of freedom.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

The little fever of envy, once caught, is the ruin of all happiness.

Seemed like no matter how much money people had, they were desperate to have more, desperate to look good compared to everyone else. Why bother to impress when all anyone else cared about was how impressive THEY were?

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress.

With vivid words your just conceptions grace, Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain.

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

I don't want to have 'carnal knowledge' with any old Zuni, asshole. From the way she seemed to relish the word asshole as it unwound from her lips, I guessed that she rarely used it. It sounded like a mark of esteem, and I was momentarily very jealous of Arthur. I wondered what it might take to get Jane to call me an asshole too.

The rich kept you waiting so that you could feel free to admire all that they had.

The rich kept you waiting so you could feel free to admire all that they had.

envy is the one deadly sin that no American can ever admit to...

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

Jealousy is a hell of a thing. There's a reason it's one of the deadly sins.