Quotes About Envy

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.

Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.

Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity and pain.

We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.

If you want to make people angry. Be Happy. It's sad that people cant stand when others are happy inlife. It really says a lot about them.

Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.

Don't try to impress a loser because If one is not happy about the things happening in their life, one cannot be happy about the things happening in someone else's life.

. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.

God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

pity them. Matthew 19:24.

Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.

But when you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with their dwelling.

Pride avarice and envy are in every home.