Quotes About Envy

There was a certain usefulness in having a husband whom most people could barely tolerate: it deflected envy, for one thing.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.

Vinka Pavi? is an angry woman and her anger shows in the set of her teeth, the lines around her mouth into which her lipstick bleeds, the way she folds her arms. When she laughs it is to mock and in this she finds an ally in her son. But Anka, Anka was born with joy in her soul, to which they feel she has no right. Behind it all, as with so many things in life and in death, lies envy. In the end it gets the better of them.

I really do," she said, not looking at him. "Because once he stays here tonight, I'll have a constant reminder that you picked him and not me, and you did it before you even knew you could have him." He grimaced. "It was a near thing," he told her, thinking about how pretty she'd looked in the sunshine and how cold she looked now. "Only because I could have your babies, Joe. And I still lost by a mile. C'mon.

Such a simple concept. But then, the withy reed was always so in awe of the oak, it never occurred to it to grow.

Querido, sabido es que la envidia y la maledicencia humana no tienen fin. Pues si bien la inteligencia tiene un limite, la tontería y la malicia no tienen fondo visible o alcanzable

Some people suffer from the green-eyed monster called envy.

Bad mind, bad heart.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

felt resentful.

I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

It was very weird when my classmates were getting hundred-thousand-dollar cars because that was so not my reality.

There are people who envy you and don't want to see you succeed, but there are also people who pray for your success.

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

Even if people pretend that they're OK with it, jealousy can eat people alive.

Class envy is dangerous.

David Sedaris is so good that it makes me mad.

Being from Jammu, I always saw Delhi as this big city where everyone would want to be.

I am sick of people sitting there saying, 'Daniel Bryan vs. The Miz.' He doesn't deserve to be in the ring with me. He's not at the level that I am.

There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.

A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.