Quotes About Envy

Please excuse my little sister. She's got quite an imagination. Annie, you're just jealous because I come up with great stories and you're so boring.

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

Being envious of other people's talents will make you bitter. Being envious of other people will steal your joy. Be yourself. Believe me, the sooner you are able to cheer yourself on, the better. Do what YOU do and BE who YOU are.

Köyhä vihaa rikasta luonnostaan, sen on verissä. Tulee aina hetki jolloin lompakkokreivit pannaan lyhtytolppaan niin kuin sika teurauskoukkuun. Sitten sika syödään. Mutta kasvaa uusia, jotka lihovat kuin niitä ruokitaan. Kunnes kävelevät kahdella jalalla kuin sadussa.

I could tell by their audible gasps that the people on the beach were jealous of me when I found five shark's teeth. Locating them wasn't really the problem, but pulling them out of my leg was.

Mark Twain nailed it: "Comparison is the death of joy.

If you're pitching your boss to let you work from home a few days a week, a common rebuff is how envious your coworkers would be if you were granted this special privilege. Why, it simply wouldn't be fair! We all need to be equally, miserably unproductive at the office and suffer in unity!

Mark Twain nailed it: "Comparison is the death of joy." We're with Mark.

everybody knew the only thing that made Goss more miserable than pilots was pilots having fun.

la felicidad de los demás fastidia

Az ember azt hiszi, hogy amibe Å' beleszerelmesedik, azt más is éppúgy kívánja.

Mindketten szimpatikusak voltak, így együtt. Nem néztem Å'ket irigy szemmel, szó sincs róla, csak azzal a jólesÅ' érzéssel, hogy a valódi életben is akad még – az én megítélésem szerint – tökéletes pár.

Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction from their own.

El resentimiento pertenece a los jugadores mediocres.

At heart they hate their horrid fates, and so wreak their poor spite on me who stand for everything they have not, and for all they most crave and never can attain. Let us pity them, my chieftain, for even though we die at their hands we can afford them pity, since we are greater than they and they know it

Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you?

Xingu! she scoffed. Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unprepared though we were—that made Osric Dane so furious. I should have thought that was plain enough to everybody!

Undine's white and gold bedroom, with sea-green panels and old rose carpet, looked along Seventy-second Street toward the leafless tree-tops of the Central Park. She went to the window, and drawing back its many layers of lace gazed eastward down the long brownstone perspective. Beyond the Park lay Fifth Avenue—and Fifth Avenue was where she wanted to be!

She knew that Virginia's survey of the world was limited to people, the clothes they wore, and the carriages they drove in. Her own universe was so crammed to bursting with wonderful sights and sounds that, in spite of her sense of Virginia's superiority - her beauty, her ease, her confidence - Nan sometimes felt a shamefaced pity for her.

Isn't it natural that I should try to belittle all the things I can't offer you?

Only one thought consoled her, and that was the contemplation of Lily's beauty. She studied it with a kind of passion, as though it were some weapon she had slowly fashioned for her vengeance.

It must be represented, too, in great masses of accumulation, or it is not rightly protected. The characteristic essence of property, formed out of the combined principles of its acquisition and conservation, is to be unequal. The great masses, therefore, which excite envy, and tempt rapacity, must be put out of the possibility of danger. Then they form a natural rampart about the lesser properties in all their gradations. The same quantity of property which is by the natural

They are subject to envy, and through envy to oppression. On the present scheme it is impossible to divine what advantage they derive from the aristocratic preference upon which the unequal representation of the masses is founded.

I readily admit (indeed I should lay it down as a fundamental principle) that in a republican government, which has a democratic basis, the rich do require an additional security above what is necessary to them in monarchies. They are subject to envy, and through envy to oppression.