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Quotes About Envy

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.
~ H. L. Mencken
There is not a single soul that jealousy looks good on. Nobody! It looks ugly on everybody and it makes us act ugly - it makes us act out of character.
~ Beth Moore
I'm emotionless, yet I breathe jealousy and envy People kill for me or die to defend me
~ Kirk Jones
Toy Story we found, sorta by accident, because we didnt know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.
~ Pete Docter
Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't.
~ J. A. Jance
I got a lot of texts from friends and emails from friends and most of them were just pure jealousy.
~ Michael Schur
Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.
~ Mason Cooley
Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.
~ Susan Cain
my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.
~ Louise Erdrich
What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes
~ John Gay
The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.
~ Eliza Haywood
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
~ Muriel Spark
Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
~ Willard Gaylin
Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.
~ Jerry Saltz
Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.
~ Mason Cooley
Jealousy's eyes are green.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I really am happy for Kiley. And for you and every other happily married lady. Except for that I'm not happy for you. I kind of want you all to drop dead.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.
~ David Levithan, Every Day
One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.
~ Bob Edwards
Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.
~ Ella Leya, The Orphan Sky
Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison.
~ Francesca Marciano, Casa Rossa
The jealousy I feel twards Orlando Bloom exists on many levels.
~ Sean Astin