Quotes About Envy

I envied Lesley her unshakable optimism. She always looked on the bright side of things. If they Had a bright side.

Unhappiness comes from wanting what others have. Happiness is wanting what you already have.

Naturally intelligent people are like lumps of coal. Eventually, we turn into diamonds, And the people we once envied, turn into coal.

The envier praises me unknowingly.

Jealousy, like poetry, is incomprehensible to me.

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

I was angry with you. (Callie) For what? (Sin) Sleeping on the floor again. What is it with you and the floor? Most women have to fear their husbands are in the bed of another. Me, 'tis the hearth I envy. (Callie)

Sometimes I envy people who can be only half crazy, with one foot in the passion and one foot in the real world. But that's not me. I dive into the total crazy experience. That's the only way to travel.

Haters are a good problem to have. Nobody hates the good ones. They hate the great ones.

Furthermore--though it was quite irrelevant now--he had no idea his killer, Kazuo Kiriyama, had, in his mansion that was much larger than Toshinori's home in Shiroiwa-cho, mastered the violin at a level far superior to Toshinori's a long time ago--and then tossed his violin into the trash.

comparison was the thief of joy, as Teddy Roosevelt had once

I look at people who aren't us and I hate them.

People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

Casting wistful glances at the Woodlawns' house Now

What a shame to be so angered by what you don't have that you treat what you do have like it's nothing.

What a shame to be so angered by what you don't have that you treat what you do have like it's nothing. She's

You envy her. How come she doesn't have the weight of ambition? You pity her. How come she has no ambition?

Marie Antoinette's wardrobe was the stuff of dreams, and the space of nightmares.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

If anyone is trying to make you jealous of their own heaven, they are clearly not happy enough there.

Thiel concluded that "greed is far preferable to envy: It is less destructive (I'd rather live in a society where people don't share than in one where they try to take what belongs to everybody else) and it is more honest.

Women were always the cruelest where other women were concerned.

They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They've never seen a battle, they've never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her fathers head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.

They hate you because you act like you're better than they are