Quotes About Envy

Amparo was conquered, and I felt a twinge of jealousy. I

You too will seek your fortune, and you must be keen in obtaining it. If here you have learned to dodge a musket ball, there you must learn to elude envy, jealousy, greed, using those same weapons to combat your adversaries, namely, everyone.

Soy culpable de su condenación, soy culpable de la condenación de todos los que se condenan, es justo que las tres mujeres no hayan sido mías: es el castigo por haberlas deseado. Pierdo la primera porque está en el paraíso, la segunda porque envidia en el purgatorio el pene que jamás tendrá, y la tercera porque está en el infierno. Teológicamente perfecto. Ya escrito.

L'eroe Ur-Fascista gioca con le armi, che sono il suo Ersatz fallico: i suoi giochi di guerra sono dovuti a una invidia penis permanente.

The news about Eddoes and the shoes travelled round the street pretty quickly. My mother was annoyed. She said, 'You see what sort of thing life is. Here I is, working my finger to the bone. Nobody flinging me a pair of shoes just like that, you know. And there you got that thin-arse little man, doing next to nothing, and look at all the things he does get.

The United States, being a strong and wealthy society, and with unrivaled global influence, invites envy. The success of its restless culture of freedom, constitutional democracy, self-critique, secular rationalism, and open markets provokes the resentment of both weaker and less-secure theocracy and autocracy alike.

To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. Why was I not made of stone like thee?

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

Ser-se canhoto é circunstância digna de inveja

It is the habit of the envious man to absolve himself of public wrongs with his own personal grievances.

The man who is not loved soars like a vulture over the mistresses of other men;

I know a thing or two about jealousy, how it can cut you to the bone and bring out the worst in you.

For Greenspan, however, the problem isn't extreme inequality per se, or the newly extreme inequality between the great majority and the rich, but rather the envy of the poor for the middle class. And his proposed solution to that, honest to God, was to contrive to pay middle-class workers even less, to bring their incomes down closer to those of the poor.

Light skin, dark skin, my Asian persuasion/ I got them all that's why these girls out here hatin'" —JANET JACKSON

You only want everything you don't have" Matt from The vampire diaries

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

We often glory in the most criminal passions; but envy is a shameful passion we never dare own.

Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, and coquetry by true love.

The clay pot wishes to laugh at the iron pot. --Trinidad proverb

Creatures with no dreams of their own can do naught but destroy the dreams of others.

Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did not function independently of each other, which handicapped her expressions of suspicion and disdain.