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Quotes About Envy

I'm just a deeply jealous person. And I want blame everybody else for what I don't have.
~ Karen Kilgariff
I was never jealous of my best friend. But I was envious of his talent. I had achieved my ambition of being in a band and playing live and I wanted him to go on and realize his talent as much as he did.
~ Andrew Ridgeley
I think people feel jealous when they feel they may be left behind by those they have relationships with or can't keep up with people they actually admire.
~ Sonja Morgan
I get very, very jealous if I see people who are dressed better than me.
~ Gok Wan
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.
~ Robert Kraft
Money brings jealousy and bitterness.
~ Phil Taylor
You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
~ Abbott L. Lowell
I've been in rooms where people are discussing films that have yet to come out and saying delightedly, 'Oh, I've heard it's a disaster!' The jealousy is unseemly.
~ Lenny Abrahamson
Jealousy is a scary thing.
~ Laura Dern
It is jealousy that leads people to tarnish you.
~ Priyadarshan
When I go to see theater, I'm consumed with professional jealousy.
~ Brad Hall
There's so much jealousy in our business. They don't like anything new or different. They don't like change.
~ Bob Baffert
I wish I was as smart as Jeff Bezos. He's just a large-brained space alien.
~ Glenn Kelman
If a player has jewelry or a cool car, people in Germany are instantly jealous.
~ Jerome Boateng
Jimmy Akingbola, Ed MacLiam and Hugh Quarshie are all so fit!
~ Laila Rouass
I'm always jealous of Johnny Depp's sense of style, but if I tried to get away with a floppy hat and waistcoat, I'd look like a homeless person.
~ Stephen Merchant
Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison.
~ Francesca Marciano
let it be—MONEY! Of course it was money. What else could it be? There was so much stuff he needed: a Mutant Max lunchbox, a Rapper Zapper Blaster, and, of course, the new Terminator Gladiator game he kept seeing advertized on TV. Mom and Dad were so mean and horrible, they wouldn't buy it for him. But he could buy whatever he liked with his own money. So there. Ha ha ha ha ha. Wouldn't Ralph be green with envy when
~ Francesca Simon
How much I envy you, you greedy earth, who get to clasp the one who's taken from me, and keep me from the air of her sweet face in which I once found peace from all my war! How
~ Francesco Petrarca
It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
~ Francis Bacon
Wherefore you shall observe, that the more deep and sober sort of politic persons, in their greatness, are ever bemoaning themselves, what a life they lead; chanting a quanta patimur! Not that they feel it so, but only to abate the edge of envy.
~ Francis Bacon