Quotes About Envy

I've always wanted to live really high up, and this is the only flat in the building with a balcony, so I feel quite smug up here.

I wouldn't wear turtlenecks. That I'm not envious of. But who knows? I might sneak out a few things and hope and pray that no one says, 'Hey, didn't you wear that when you were playing an enormous geek on TV?'

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.

There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.

Opening for certain acts after so many years of headlining obviously made us resentful. It was kind of hard watching all these bands, who I really believed didn't deserve to be on top musically, going ahead and pushing us out.

El aparato no corresponde a la fiesta: el avaricioso se atormenta más que el pobre, y el celoso más que el cornudo.

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.

Todos nosotros somos a la vez objeto de repugnancia y de envidia. Todos nosotros menos los muy pobres, los que sólo tienen por debajo de ellos el pozo séptico del infierno.

The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.

We mustn't be envious, comrades. There's twenty-two dachas4 in all, and only seven more being built, and there's three thousand of us in Massolit.' 'Three thousand one hundred and eleven,' someone put in from the corner. 'So you see,' the Bos'n went on, 'what can be done? Naturally, it's the most talented of us that got the dachas . . .

Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.

Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that time. The era of ancient Egyptian culture lasted for several thousand years; the era of Greek antiquity for almost a thousand. In this respect, a single human life imitates the history of mankind; at first it is plunged into immobile slowness, and then only gradually does it accelerate more and more.

Erotizam je komercijalno dvosmislen, jer premda svi priželjkuju erotski život, svi ga tako?er mrze kao uzrok svojih nesre?a, frustracija, zavisti, kompleksa, patnji.

Não posso evocar essas velhas culturas antigas sem uma espécie de nostalgia. De nostalgia e inveja, ao pensar sem dúvida na suave lentidão da história naquele tempo.

They say that love and tears are learned without any master; and I may say that there is no great need of studying at the court to learn envy and revenge.

Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love; as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.

The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.

If I could be somebody, it'd definitely be Brad Pitt. I love the way he looks.

The only thing that would make her jealous would be if I led a parade riding a unicorn while ballerinas sang love songs.

I love Sara Bareilles. She's just so clever. I wish I were her. She's so awesome.

I have these huge, pointed ears. They're like three times the size of Orlando Bloom's ears. And I think he has ear envy, I love my ears.

A guilty conscience is jealousy's playground.

O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento.