Quotes About Envy

Viola had resented other people's pleasure, as if it subtracted something from the world rather than adding to it.

fellow alumni, a fact which Murdo said "just goes to show." Gloria thought that it didn't go to show anything except, possibly, that they were greedier and more ruthless than their former classmates.

Three semis drove past us. One was painted with a picture of a cow standing in a field of green grass. I was jealous of that cow because she was at home and I was not. It seemed like a very sad thing to be jealous of a fake cow on the side of a truck.

I think that when small-minded people envy and despise, then they will mock, thinking it their only weapon. I am not, I hope, a small-minded person. I will not mock you. I'll tell you straight to your face that I don't trust you and can't trust you...

There is never any call for envy or stinginess in owls, Soren. We have the sky, we have the great forests and the trees. We are the most beautiful fliers on earth. Why would we envy any other bird or animal?

It must be nice sometimes to have no feelings. I envy you.' I considered this, then said: 'I believe I have many feelings. The more I observe, the more feelings become available to me.' She laughed unexpectedly, making me start. 'In that case,' she said, 'maybe you shouldn't be so keen to observe.

was speaking to me. 'It must be nice sometimes to have no feelings. I envy you.' I considered this, then said: 'I believe I have many feelings. The more I observe, the more feelings become available to me.

I envied it; not the idea of having so much money that you could throw it away, but the thought of growing up in a world where someone cared so much about your happiness and so little about what you accomplished in life.

I envied it; not the idea of having so much money that you could throw it away, but the thought of growing up in a world where someone cared so much about your happiness and so little about what you accomplished in life.  

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

Most people throw away their personal power... If you want to know where, look at who and what you hate, blame, resent, and envy.

Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side.

Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.

Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

Mad cause he aint like me... Oh you mad cause nobody ever did it like me.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.

Would you like to hear a nice definition of jealousy? It's the feeling that you get when someone you absolutely detest is having a wonderful time without you.

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

The venom clamors of a jealous womanPoison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.