Quotes About Envy

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

It stirs up envy, fame does. People...feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you--and it won't hurt your feelings--like it's happening to your clothing.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo

It is not empathy I seek. I found what I was looking for... envy me!

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

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

Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Most women have a good deal of pity for some other woman's husband

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, then when you see what the other fellow has, you wish you had ordered that.

The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.

As we had no electricity we also had no "idiot box" and therefore felt no envy. Except

They looked shallow, self-absorbed. And a small, strangled part of me envied them.

It had been odd to envy their grief, but I had. I envied the explosion and finality of it-- their sobs and tears... Her passing came slowly, over months and years, in the dull bits, pieces, and mundane hours that I worked to stay alive... The memories of her became disconnected blurred images, warm hands cupping my cheeks, a tuneless hum as she worked, words that floated in the air, her finger pressed to my lips.

Ik benijd Benedetta di Chimici haar plekje onder de grond, waar ze niet langer voor het leven van haar kinderen hoeft te vrezen. - Graziella Nucci

There are always men who take their own measure against greatness, and hate it not for what it is, but for what they are. They can envy even the dead. So much Alexander saw. He did not understand, since it was not in him, the power such men have to rouse in others the sleeping envy they once had a decent shame of; to turn respect for excellence into hate. Nor did Kallisthenes understand it in himself. Vanity begets it, vanity covers it up.

As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.

Roses have no reason to envy daisies.

To be envied for your giftedness is better than to be accepted for your untalentedness.

Most gossip is envy in disguise.

Much of gossip is envy in disguise, Much of self-doubt is conformity in disguise.

As she stared at Voltaire's still and peaceful expression – that total absence of pain – there was an inescapable feeling brewing in the darkness. Envy.