Quotes About Envy

Realization of a dream brings resentment in its wake.

As they were carting him off on a gurney, all I could think was, I wish that was me.

Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very well to sit around in my pajamas and type on my ridiculously fancy iMac, unless I'd rather take a nap. Feel free to hate me -- I certainly would.

Let me have men about me that are fat.... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous

Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o'nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

They are walking hand in hand and she looks so very happy that you try to find the space in your heart not to begrudge her.

Así es como en nuestro pobre país se miden el talento y la fama, de manera directamente proporcional a la envidia.

The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal — it's also the reason they hate birds.

For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

Can angels lie spine to spine? If not, how they must envy us humans

You're isolated as a writer, so I always envied people who could get up early and drive to work and fit into society.

If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style of life. I think everyone envies it a bit.

I don't envy anybody else's career because I feel they've earned where they're at and worked hard. I wouldn't mind Jack White's gig, though. He does it all!

Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.

If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.

There will always be jealous people and haters: people who assume that if they were in your shoes, they could do what you're doing. That's just the world we live in.

And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.

I can't watch 'Glee' because I get so jealous that I'm not there with them doing it that I can't even watch.

I know David Walliams did 'Blankety Blank', and when he did that I was so jealous. I would have loved to have done that. It's sort of my sense of humour.

We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

I'm jealous of the 'Love Island' girls. I wish I was that confident.

Growing up I wasn't allowed to wear makeup in school, so all my friends would have like lipstick and eyeliner on, and I wasn't allowed to. So I was always jealous.