Quotes About Envy

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values.

It was once remarked of a well-known Oxford scholar that, while he had no enemies, he was hated by all his friends. Something of the same kind would express the feelings towards the FBI of its fellow U.S. agencies.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't like?

Es muss so etwas wie Glück geben. Wie sonst würden wir uns den Erfolg derjenigen erklären, die wir nicht mögen?

No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your life.

He has. A fucking. Rothko. Over the fireplace

Because he has money he's a kind of god. Because I have none I'm a kind of worm. A worm because I've failed and I have no money. A worm because I'm not even sure if I hate you.

There is talk in the village that there is more in these sewers than sewerage. Yes, I say, Yes. But not only these sewers. There is more in your heart than can be spoken. More in your eyes than you will tell. More in the mind of you than anyone can know. More in the night than darkness. More in the river than can be dredged. What more ? The hate, envy, malice, greed, stupidity and evil that lie under the floor of everything. If I have secrets so do you.

Jamás he conocido las pasiones más odiosas, nunca ha invadido mi corazón la envidia, la maldad, ni la venganza... en ocasiones la ira, pero no soy muy hábil y jamás guardo rencor.

I'm not upset because I'll miss you," Mom said. "I'm upset because you get to go to New York and I'm stuck here. It's not fair.

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit.

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself.

People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.

I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.

Im always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

I haven't got a green bone in my body. I have not got a jealous streak of any type at all.

It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

I used to be really envious of those kids who could do their homework and bring it in on time and were organised.