Quotes About Envy

Prosperity makes few friends.

If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window.

A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it.

Is there a choice in life? It's always been like this. I am jealous that you have a lot of leisure and free time. You are jealous that I have a lot money.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.

I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.

I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

The funniest thing people say to me: "I wish I had your life". Hello! I make a living writing about it.

People ask if I can get it up in the morning. I tell them are you kidding I'm envious of a stiff wind.

As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

Don't be (dis.grun.tled), disgruntled that someone else is more successful than you are. Let their success motivate you to become successful.

Don't waste your time being envious of what you don't have or who you want to be. Instead, focus on what you do have and who you can become.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

We hate it when our friends become successful.

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.