Quotes About Envy

So spare me your envy. It was the gods who neglected to give you a cock, not me.

She stared at them with yearning. Part of her wanted to be a swan. The other part wanted to eat one.

It is simpler for her, Catelyn thought with a pang of envy. She was like a man in that. For men the answer was always the same, and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints—the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do …

Negroes around them enviously admired their clear white skins.

What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, and not Jack, that's all.

How I envy you your ability to be inarticulate in the face of Fate.

His clothes were such elegant confections, beautifully hand-stitched and of such exquisite materials, that Margo was torn between envy at his wardrobe and disgust

We can't all be like him, or his brother, or Helms, or the rest of those people.' 'No,' she said sadly. 'But I wish to God we could be something else.

I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved.

Moral indignation is, in most cases, 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

No one is content with his own lot.

The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest.

We all envy other people's luck.

We are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

To think well of every other man's condition, and to dislike our own, is one of the misfortunes of human nature.

Other people's eggs have two yolks.

Envy is an insult to oneself.