Quotes About Envy

Actually he was forty-three, and owing to a weak heart that made him ineligible for the Army, he had come to Brookfield as a war-time deputy. How a schoolmaster must envy a boy who is obviously going to grow up into a man of much superior personality to his own, and how easily that envy can turn to loathing if the boy senses it and is cruel!

The people that criticize your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are now.

Jealousy is ones fear that another is better than them.

We must examine what we envy or dislike in others and acknowledge those very things in ourselves. This helps to prevent our blaming or envying others for what we have not done ourselves.

From the evil seed of lust all other deadly sins had sprung forth: pride in himself and contempt of others, covetousness in using money for the purchase of unlawful pleasures, envy of those whose vices he could not reach to and calumnious murmuring against the pious, gluttonous enjoyment of food, the dull glowering anger amid which he brooded upon his longing, the swamp of spiritual and bodily sloth in which his whole being had sunk.

affection, increases care. He is a new male: his growth is his father's decline, his youth his father's envy, his friend his father's enemy. In rue Monsieur-le-Prince I thought it. --What links them in nature? An instant of blind rut. Am I a father? If I were? Shrunken uncertain hand.

A pier, sir, Armstrong said. A thing out in the waves. A kind of bridge. Kingstown pier, sir. Some laughed again : mirthless but with meaning. Two in the back bench whispered. Yes. They knew : had never learned nor ever been innocent. All. With envy he watched their faces. Edith, Ethel, Gerty, Lily. Their likes : their breaths, too, sweetened with tea and jam, their bracelets tittering in the struggle. — Kingstown pier, Stephen said. Yes, a disappointed bridge.

You hate rich people, Dave.

It wasn't that I was tired of life, really - just my own. Other people's lives seemed perfectly worthwhile, and only the logistical difficultly of assuming them and the likelihood of being caught kept me from concocting some sort of swap.

She has something in her that I thought I had, and now I find I haven't. Pride, or whatever it is. Nothing on earth could make Veda do what I'm going to do.

Grant's reputation as a heavy drinker is based very little on evidence and a great deal on gossip, envy, and vengefulness.

When your own romantic life is falling apart, everyone else's looks fabulous.

AND NOW—THE GOOD STUFF You look at me, and I know what you're thinking: "Zac Efron without the hot legs.

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

You're going to find England, unfortunately, is a place where you get a lot of jealous, envious, you know, negative people. That's how it is.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

A man's tailored jacket is like a compartmentalized storage unit with sleeves. Women eye those pockets with envy while searching for a ticket stub lost in a handbag.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.

I'm not jealous in traditional ways - of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts - but I do covet other women's styles of being.

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.