Quotes About Envy

I'll have what she's having.

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

As one half of our nature seeks to create heroes to worship, the other must ceaselessly attempt to cast them down and discover evidence of feet-of-clay, in order to label them as mere lucky fellows, or as villains-were-the-facts-but-known, and the eminent and great are ground between the millstones of envy, and reduced again to common size.

sizin dünyan?zda, o dünyay? bizlerin san?p ya?arken, hepinize hayrand?k.

Why did they kill it? Man can't stand to let something beautiful and pure, a thing on wings, pass over him. He hates everything that soars, and everything that sings. It seemed to me this swan is the very image of my dream, and my dream is dead.

She learned quickly that it was not good to be too different. Great differences caused envy, suspicion, fear, charges of witchcraft.

But those dedicated to other religions, and those who are not religious at all sneer at Jarret and call him a hypocrite. They sneer, they hate him, but they also fear him. They see him for the tyrant that he is. And the thugs see him as one of them. They envy him. He is the bigger, the more successful thief, murderer, and slaver.

Lilith watched them enviously. They didn't lie often to humans because their sensory language had left them with no habit of lying—only of withholding information, refusing contact. Humans, on the other hand, lied easily and often. They could not trust one another. They could not trust one of their own who seemed too close to aliens, who stripped off her clothing and lay down on the ground to help her jailer.

Hark to the sky of a seagull! He cries because he's not an eagle. Oh, what if you were you silly he-gull? What would you say to your she-gull?

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

We were sorry for them, for such deaths were really horrible; yet we envied them, too. They had found the courage to reject a life which no longer merited the name.

Ludzie maj? pot??n? potrzeb?, ?eby czu? si? lepszymi od innych. Niewa?ne, kim s?, musz? mie? kogo?, kto by?by gorszy od nich.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Was there any more repellent sight, Harriet wondered, than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so much more splendid than herself?

Be discerning with rumors on leaders, for most are birthed by the envy of the idle or the desperation of the defeated.

Most complain about dried up lawns; others envy a neighbor's green lawn, but winners learn from all lawns while cultivating their own.

It has seemed to me in fact that those who called me lucky were incomparably more fortunate than I.

Haters need to see you go down to lift themselves up.

Your failures make a hater happier than their own success.

Your improvement may bother people who are used to you existing below their level. They may openly campaign for you to get your life together, but they secretly relish their superiority over you.

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

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

Communism is a hatred of the poor for the rich—not simply an envy.