Quotes About Envy

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

I hope we can be happy where we are, be grateful for our blessings-now-here, accept the challenge that is ours and make the most of it, and don't be envious of others. God help us to be grateful.

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

I wish I was Sienna Miller. When I talk to her, I hope a bit of her party personality will rub off on me, but it never does.

At the heart of her bad nature, like many bad natures, was probably envy. And at the heart of envy was possibly hope - that the good fortune of others might one day be hers

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

You had to stand in line to hate him.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.

I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.

It's awful to be rich and mind-boggingly handsome and have women fawn over you. My heart bleeds for you. Poor dear, how do you manage?

I hate girls that giggle all the time... You hate any girl that David looks at.

When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.

Jealousy. It's a terrible thing. Unless it's someone else's.

Have you ever noticed how good things go to those who hate?

There is a moment of sheer panic when I realize that Paul's apartment overlooks the park... and is obviously more expensive than mine.

She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad case of barrel envy.

Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.