Quotes About Envy

Envy is like flame which scorches the wisdom of inner self. Envy reflects lack of belief in self. It will eat away your very essentials of self worth.

When you know yourself, your value is presented. You soon begin to understand that there will only be one you so there's no need to envy or try to duplicate another.

Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.

I'm not a jealous person. I'm just a girl that would love to punch every other girl in the face that gives you a second look.

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

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

En el envidioso existe una voluntad, una actitud de esfuerzo o, en el peor de los casos, de capricho, que indirectamente lo hace culto, laborioso, incansable. La envidia es el único vicio que se alimenta de virtudes, que vive gracias a ellas.

Jealousy was not a green-eyed monster, she thought. It was red in tooth and claw, with glaring, fiery eyes. Her

I tried my best, but she pulled ahead, and I was loath to shout after her. Instead, I practiced throwing rude and unflattering thoughts in her direction. Killy glanced over her shoulder at me, and her pace slowed to a very fast walk.

Senior faculty nowadays similarly squirm when former 'dunderheads' return to campus to lecture on their prizewinning screenplay or to cut the ribbon for a building funded by their entrepreneurial acumen. How did such dullards metamorphose into geniuses?

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.

I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

I had pecs for about two days. Everyone would hate me. Just look at me walking around with my little peacoat on. My little customized pea coat.

It was as if she was a wannabe Persian cat who had just tasted sour milk.

There was an edge to his expression, like he didn't trust anyone who was more attractive than he was.

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

At my age, I'm envious of a stiff wind.

I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.

She's got a great looking husband, a little boy and all the money in the world. She hasn't got the looks, but you can't have everything.

Capitalism is founded on greed and envy