Quotes About Envy

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

People may think they despise those not as virtuous as themselves, but there's no end to the reservoirs of wrath we bear for those we know to be better.

Eliza's constant harping didn't even get to Martha, although it sometimes seemed that Eliza's raison d'etre was to urinate on Martha's parade.

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we're envious of them, and we put them up on that pedestal.

I have been that actor who's watched peers and thought, 'God, they're doing well. I'll never get there.'

I get what it feels like to watch some of your peers pass you in a field that you're in.

I wasn't mad, but it was maybe a little frustrating sometimes seeing some friends and peers my age do well. Not because I wasn't cheering for them - because I feel like I was as good as them.

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

I can't stand when people say, 'Don't hate me because I'm beautiful'. OK, how about I hate you because you said that.

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

The lives we live are a bit of a straight-hair vs. curly-hair thing. We often want what we don't have. In reality, it's not about better or worse; it's just perception.

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

Very distasteful is excessive fame To the sour palate of the envious mind, Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name, And hates the fortune that he ne?er shall find.

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.

It is the fortune of all good men that their virtue rises in glory after their deaths, and that the envy which evil men conceive against them never outlives them long; some have the happiness even to see it die before them; but in Numa's case, also, the fortunes of the succeeding kings served as foils to set off the brightness of his reputation.

In politics, we must not escape a single master…but many masters…contentiousness, love of glory, the desire to be first and greatest, and the sickness that produces envy, jealousy, and dissension in abundance.

For they either believe their colleagues to be their equals and so they fight against them; or they believe them to be superior and so they envy them; or they believe them inferior and so they despise them. We must, however, pay court to the colleague who is superior, make the inferior better, and honor the equal.

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you . It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.