Quotes About Envy

He cannot repress a strong feeling of envy for that man who expresses himself with such methodical self-confidence.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

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In Samuel's day the people were distracted by the form of government they saw in their neighboring nations and decided that they, too, should have a king. In generation after generation the perceived prosperity of such neighbors distracted Israel from the Lord God, making them wonder if Baal might be better. Thus envy lent its power to distraction.

Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up her nose.

Being wealthy might seem to be "supremely enviable," he wrote, but "the business of wealth-getting, and of wealth-enjoyment, when viewed at close range, turns out to be a very different matter.

Cape Town, so beautiful she was bored hearing about it and would never go just to spite it.

Everywhere you look you see people with things that you do not have, and it has a profound mental effect.

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

Yes, but everybody else gets more than us.

Three great obstacles to progress: guilt, envy, and resentment.

The Beloved One going off to America and getting himself killed. The Defiant One trying to invent a flying machine. And now the Wild One, vandalizing statues and ruining innocent young women. The duke might be the devil's kin, but Crawley didn't envy His Grace The Wicked One one bit.

Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.

We lived in a farm village, and no one could afford to buy a car or to fly. We were envious. We couldn't afford any toys. I couldn't imagine making a real car.

Generally, I'm terrified of shopping. I like the idea of being well-dressed, but I've always struggled to get anything that fits. I envy those that go into old vintage shops.

Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.

My parents and two sisters were great musicians but my family's approach to music was always way more academic than mine. They were virtuoso players. But they were all impressed that I could sit down at a piano and find a melody. We had a different approach, we had mutual envy.

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

think about how common it is, even in everyday situations, to be jealous of a spouse and how taboo it is to talk about that. Aren't we supposed to be happy for their good fortune? Isn't that what love is about?

Anger is the go-to feeling for most people because it's outward-directed—angrily blaming others can feel deliciously sanctimonious. But often it's only the tip of the iceberg, and if you look beneath the surface, you'll glimpse submerged feelings you either weren't aware of or didn't want to show: fear, helplessness, envy, loneliness, insecurity.

How could she have been so ungrateful? She envied the French singer who regretted nothing. She regretted all.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.