Quotes About Envy

In fact, she sounded like she was mad at Katie for wearing it.

Thread and cloth were ordinary – worse than ordinary; they were women's affairs. But letters! Letters were for lords and kings. And something in me blazed fiery jealous and joyous at the thought: Why ever should they have what I did not?

L'envie est une déclaration d'infériorité.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.

Even now someone might be envying another for something they don't see in themselves. They might be longing for a quality they already posses.

we have a very strange relationship with success in this country. Everyone wants it, but a vocal minority insists on denigrating those who have achieved it.

A lot of people went through life feeling they'd been ripped off. The money, the good jobs, the beautiful women, the rich husbands, had been snatched away from them, given to the wrong people.

Do not envy a sinner you don't know what disaster awaits him.

Goodness provokes bitchiness. It's mathematical. It's somewhere in the human genes. Any number of lovely poeple are married to horrible ones. Read Middlemarch (Book 989, George Eliot, Penguin Classics, London) if you don't believe me. There's something in me that just can't let it be. Goodness is a tidy bow you just can't help wanting to pull loose.

They don't have to struggle like I do - or maybe that's just me comparing my goddamn insides to everyone else's outsides.

My name is Tomlyn. I am very beautiful. Marshall says I am spiteful and wicked and a barbarian to boot. He's jealous of my thick grey fur, my white chin and breast, and the snowy end of my tail. I suppose he can't help being envious, the great rusty-black thing! He's got a big, blunt beak, and stubby wings, and tiny little eyes... He's old and stupid and a coward; with an endless flow of long words that he can't possibly understand.

The law should restrict itself to punishing speech that directly provokes crime – incitement to murder, incitement to violence or incitement to arson. It should not punish incitement to hatred, because it is not a crime to hate people, any more than it is to envy them or to lust after them.

Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

Where Christianity disappears, greed, envy, and lust invent a thousand ideologies to justify themselves.

A partisan of equality who is not envious can only be so because he is stupid.

Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.

Having promulgated the dogma of original innocence, liberalism concludes that the man guilty of the crime is not the envious murderer but the victim who aroused his envy.

To educate the soul consists in teaching it to transform its envy into admiration.

Envy differs from the other vices by the ease with which it disguises itself as a virtue.

Jealousy is a waste of energy...focus on what I have, not what I don't.

Eric the Evil scowled. Well, hell. He was jealous of himself.

My heart is bound by beauty's spell. My love is indestructible. Although I like a candle burn, And almost to a shadow turn, I envy not the heart that's free: Love's soul-encircling chains for me.

Deep down, it seemed, many Americans were convinced that a gain for others was a loss for themselves.