Quotes About Envy

it was the hunger from seeing someone who has what you want but knowing that if you get it, it will break your heart, your life, and your soul.

but what Serena hadn't been able to deal with was the pathetic way Diane had always bragged about everything. From having the better father to receiving all

the beautiful clothing to all the summer vacations her father took her on annually, Diane had bragged, bragged, and bragged some more, and Serena had never truly gotten over it or forgiven her sister.

Ah, how hard it is to manage the fateful transition to old age gracefully and calmly! Instead, convulsions, writhings, grimaces, strife with the younger generation, envy.

People like me who lack something are liable to become spiteful critics.

Hate Scars. I'm physically flawless-why can't everyone be? Everywhere Lothaire went, people stopped and stared. Of course, then they usually ran. Lothair Enemy of Old

Lothaire: Hate scars. I'm physically flawless--why can't everyone be? Everywhere Lothaire went, people stopped and stared. Of course, then they usually ran.

Her enhanced boobs dwarfed my 32Cs; she could legit carry drinks without a tray. I always pictured her balancing martinis on her mammaries with circus music teed up.

People don't want their lives improved. They want the lives of people they hate made worse.

But to become civilized means to dress as elaborately and prettily as possible, and to make a show of your clothes so your neighbors will envy you, and for that reason both civilized foxes and civilized humans spend most of their time dressing themselves.

Emerald City. Not all the people could go to congratulate

But to become civilized means to dress as elaborately and prettily as possible, and to make a show of your clothes so your neighbors will envy you, and for that reason both civilized foxes and civilized humans spend most of their time dressing themselves. I don't, declared the shaggy man. That is true, said the King, looking at him carefully; but perhaps you are not civilized.

I have been safe from molestation for many years, because I was poor and possessed nothing that anyone else could envy. But if you make me rich and prosperous I shall at once become the prey of thieves and marauders and probably will lose my life in the attempt to protect my fortune.

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.

One of the reasons I write about religion is due to my own envy of people who truly feel the presence of god in their lives, good souls who believe devoutly in a supreme being and an afterlife.

Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

When your own romantic life is falling apart, everyone else's looks fabulous.

Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

But a thought swarmed in me; what if he, this yellow-eyed being – in his ridiculous, dirty bundle of trees, in his uncalculated life – is happier than us?

It's clear: if there is no good reason for enviousness, the denominator of the fraction of happiness is brought to zero and the fraction is transformed into a glorious infinity.

Isn't it clear that bliss and envy are the numerator and the denominator of the fraction known as happiness?