Quotes About Envy

In college, girls would come up to me: 'I want your calves.' It just makes me laugh. I guess people pay a lot of money to have the types of bodies athletes have.

In France, I guess there's something like a tyranny in mentalities - we accept success badly, beauty, money. People are certainly envious, and this creates negative energy. This is annoying. I suffered a great deal at one time. I had to fight harder than others. Add to that my marriage to Polanski.

Jealousy destroys the matrimonies; jealousy destroys the friendships, jealousy provokes religious wars, fratricidal hates, murderers and all kind of suffering.

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.

Jealousy is the manifestation of insecurity and dissatisfaction with one's calling and self-worth.

The road that gives you fulfillment, purpose, and joy as it takes you to Destiny is always peppered with jealous, envious, and angry people whose venomous darts are aimed squarely in your direction as you travel.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

I wasn't sure what I thought of the direction in which this appeared to be going, but I felt a sudden, unwelcome dart of something like envy. In school I had dreamed of friendships like this: the steel-tempered closeness of soldiers in battle or prisoners of war, the mystery attained only by men in extremis.

The sudden, painful flare of envy caught me by surprise. I was a loner, my last few years in school. I could have done with a friend like that.

To a hikikomori, winter is painful because everything feels cold, frozen over, and lonely. To a hikikomori, spring is also painful because everyone is in a good mood and therefore enviable. Summer, of course, is especially painful...

She told me once she envied the women who lived back in the good old days who only had to worry about Indians and mountain lions killing their husbands. Something about those things being beyond a wife's control.

Yet, he is greatly loved," said Marcus. Scaevola nodded, and frowned. "Perhaps it is because a totally evil man has an irresistible charm, and excites the envy and admiration of those who dare not display themselves so completely.

She floats down the aisle like a pageant queen. But I know you wish it was me. You wish it was me don't you

The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.

If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her.

I never got to know my grandparents, and I am envious of my friends who have a special relationship with theirs.

When you're good at something, there's always someone to spit on you.

People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

Getting married is a good deal like going to a restaurant with your friends. You order what you want and then when you see what the other fellow got you wish you had taken that.

All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.