Quotes About Envy

Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.

Base men who prosper are unenviable.

You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.

Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.

A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

That's why I got a new dumb thing moving through the streets Got a new condo moving to the beach Heard Nicki just bought a brand new crib Got damn man she's beauty and the beast

Judge not, then, the karmic path walked by another. Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning. Call not a thing calamity, nor joyous event, until you decide, or witness, how it is used. For is a death a calamity if it saves the lives of thousands? And is a life a joyous event if it has caused nothing but grief? Yet even this you should not judge, but keep always your own counsel, and allow others theirs.

I'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?

I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite 'telescope envy' at gatherings of amateur astronomers.

by the second quarter of the twentieth century one in nine German doctors was a Jew, and one in six lawyers. There were also above-average numbers of Jews working as newspaper editors, journalists, theatre directors and academics. Indeed, they were under-represented in only one of Germany's elite occupational groups, and that was the officer corps of the army. Anti-Semitism, then, was sometimes nothing more than the envy of under-achievers.

Skoro pot??ny cudzoziemiec wkracza do prowincji, natychmiast ??cz? si? z nim wszyscy ci, co s? w niej mniej pot??ni, kierowani zawi?ci? przeciw pot??niejszemu od siebie.

She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.

Movie stars, rich people - oh, they have so many beautiful cars!