Quotes About Envy

Oh, I would love to be in Don Juan's shoes for a weekend. Not that I was ever handsome enough to be a Don Juan.

While many people overseas envy Korea's development, it is true that society has many problems such as economic polarization and a low birthrate.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

My kids are now the most popular kids in their school.

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

A lot of bands would be aching to be in the position we are.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

I am beginning to have more powerful enemies and more envious ones, too.

I know some of the richest and most powerful men in the world, and they're jealous of me.

I think Julian Casablancas and Amy Winehouse are two contemporaries I envy.

I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.

I don't have the similar amount of success like my contemporaries have.

There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.

I totally cared - that I didn't have access to the money to get the coolest clothes ate away at me.

I was a kid when the Tamagotchi craze hit, and I was always envious of my friends and cousins who got to hand-rear their little digital babies.

I made a decision to stop feeling envious of other people, to crack on with my life and stop comparing myself with others.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

A man marries the most gorgeous girl he can find because It's human nature to want the best of anything. If other men admire her he likes that, too. We all work best under competition. After all, no one wants to face an egg beater across the breakfast table... or find a horror movie in his home when he doesn't even own a TV set.

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

Talent is very dangerous. It alienates people.

Justin Timberlake puts you to shame, having that much talent.

Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like, 12 years old or something! He has 0 percent body fat, he is musically gifted, he has a great ear for accents, and he is hilarious.