Quotes About Envy

I felt so ashamed with them because everything in their life was going so well and they were so sort of successful. I couldn't talk about what I wanted with them and they were always in a hurry.

I adore your jealousy, especially when it's so misplaced. I expect Shakespeare wrote a sonnet about that.

Jealousy lasts forever. Bad news for the young.

Everyone seemed to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed except me.

I despise envy on principle and I feel only contempt for those who fall prey to it; so I never let myself feel it, you see, unless I can call it something else.

What use is my life to me? I envy the dead. All day I envy them. I can't even earn my death.

I'm not a completely envy-free zone - I envy 25-year-old men with magnificent bodies - but when I look at my colleagues on the whole, I don't think I have much to envy!

No animal admires another animal.

I think one reason we admire cats, those of us who do, is their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing - or pretend they do. Rarely do you see a cat discomfited. They have no conscience, and they never regret. Maybe we secretly envy them.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

The critic is an overgoer with pen-envy.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

It is not enough to succeed, a friend must fail.

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.

My parents were educated in the Turkish system and went straight from high school to medical school; my mom, who had skipped a grade, was dissecting corpses at age seventeen. Growing up in America, I think I envied my parents' education. By comparison, everything I did in school seemed so sort of low-stakes and infantilizing.

I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the same time. When 'Obscure Object of Desire' came out in France, I felt guilty for my friends at the National School who weren't in the movies. The whole thing was turmoil.

There have been a handful of assignments over the years that I've had to turn down due to time constraints, and I was fairly envious when I saw the finished product, beautifully illustrated by someone else.