Quotes About Envy

Estimating that his merits would never earn him a penny or the position he coveted and felt entitled to, he decided to carve out a career for himself, cultivating a click of like-minded chums with home to exchange privileges, excluding those he envied.

Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues

Miquel Moliner estaba poseído por esa laboriosidad culpable, y aunque respetaba y hasta envidiaba la ociosidad de los demás, huía de ella como de la peste. Lejos de presumir de su ética de trabajo, bromeaba sobre su compulsión productiva y la describía como una forma menor de cobardía. -Mientras se trabaja, uno no le mira a la vida a los ojos

La envidia es la religión de los mediocres.

Dunces and blockheads live in a state of perpetual envy.

La gente que no tiene vida siempre se tiene que meter en la de los demás.

El cazurro y el zoquete viven en un estado de perenne envidia.

You had heard of a caterpillar that couldn't turn into a butterfly. And you would like to examine how it would feel to be denied such a beautiful thing. You would like to know how it feels for the caterpillar to watch other caterpillars transform while all the time knowing he would never have that opportunity.

I was jealous of your perfection. And now I'm jealous that you're Flawed.

Envious, cold, and lonely. The perfect ingredients for a nice homemade bitter pie.

Your happiness makes me jealous and unhappy. I am a bitter and twisted human being.

la belleza es la bendición más precaria y que, pese a que siempre parece atraer la gloria y la alabanza, quienes la poseen suelen concitar la mezquindad y la malevolencia.

i hate her skinny thighs and her elitist attitude. i hope she's a dreadful bitch who makes you so miserable that you howl when you remember me.

I had never seen so many cute men in one place in my life. But I could tell they were not for me. Russell was like the gay vampire Hugh Hefner, and this was the Playboy Mansion, with an emphasis on the boy.

I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

People want to see someone who looks like they might have this enviable life, but in turn, they are a mess and their life is a mess.

I never wanted to be Michael Jordan, although I would like to trade bank accounts.

I guess when you get paid over 100 million dollars by one team, it's kind of easy to point the finger at other guys and try to hate on them for trying to get another contract.

Show me a man with a million dollars, and I'll show you a million guys trying to take it away from him.

I don't envy people with long hair. So, I'm glad mine is gone.

Always wanting another man than your own.

Only a wall divided him from those happy young contemporaries of his with whom he shared a common mental life; men who had nothing to do from morning till night but to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. Only a wall—but what a wall!

Three Leahs to get to One Rachel.