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Quotes About Envy

I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.
~ Eddie Marsan
Ricky Whittle's abs, they should be in a museum. They're crazy.
~ Jes Macallan
Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.
~ Andre Rieu
I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn't in that medium.
~ Catherine Hardwicke
I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.
~ Luther Allison
Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.
~ Christopher Guest
I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline.
~ Michael Keaton
I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.
~ Diane Setterfield
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
In my time also when you do good, Frenchmen don't like it.
~ Eddy Merckx
If I were doing any better I'd be jealous of myself.
~ Ernie Johnson Jr.
Stefano's the oldest. He has four brothers, equally hot. One sister, totally beautiful. When they walk around together, people just stare at them. That's how hot they are. Each one is supercool as well, which makes them scorching hot. I'm a little in love with them, including their sister. That's how totally gorgeous they are.
~ Christine Feehan
I'm not as I was but at this present moment I have to say, I feel very envious of someone who's young and active and starting out in the argument. Just think of the extraordinary things that are waiting to be known
~ Christopher Hitchens
In a society in which the dream of success has been drained of any meaning beyond itself, men have nothing against which to measure their achievements except the achievements of others.
~ Christopher Lasch
Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.
~ Christopher Moore
Everyone is happier if they have someone to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both. This is not only the Beta Male strategy for survival, but the basis for capitalism, democracy, and most religions.
~ Christopher Moore
Everyone is happier if they have someone to look down on, as well as someone to look up to. Especially if they resent both.
~ Christopher Moore
Theo looked over at Gabe's ex-girlfriend, considered the heels, the stockings, the makeup, the hair, the lines of her suit, her nose, her hips, and felt like he was looking at a sports car that he could not afford, would not know how to drive, and he could only envision himself entangled in the wreckage of, wrapped around a telephone pole.
~ Christopher Moore
So you weren't just jealous? She licked the claw once more. Perhaps a little. Eragon
~ Christopher Paolini
Pretty girls always hate other pretty girls.
~ Christopher Pike
Mother Florence had once told her that jealousy was the worst of all faults because it prevented a person from being who they were born to be.
~ Christopher Pike
He had a nice house in the Norma Triangle section of West Hollywood and an ass that could stop a war.
~ Christopher Rice
Jealousy is really an umbrella term for a constellation of feelings including envy, competitiveness, insecurity, inadequacy, possessiveness, fear of abandonment, feeling unloved, and feeling left out.
~ Tristan Taormino
and I loved the girl precisely because she existed, and I was happy, not envious, that she existed.
~ Umberto Eco