Quotes About Envy

I want only dead actors. That way there'll be no jealousy.

[John] Adams never hid his jealousy and resentment of the other Founders, especially Benjamin Franklin.

All jealousy must be strangled in its birth.

Jealousy, the old worm that bites.

Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.

Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.

The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

Sometimes I see movies and I get almost angry - because I'm like, I can never make that movie. It stems from a jealousy, but from a good kind of jealousy. It's inspirational.

jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.

I hate jealousy. At least it's its own punishment; it makes me feel like hell.

Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers.

The level of jealousy and insecurity in this industry [restaurant] is far greater than ever before.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

No tears to damn you when jealousy burns.

Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own.

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen.

There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable.

The jealousy and evilness are like worms, that destroy the soul.

Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.