Quotes About Envy

When people decided you were better at trade than they, they not only grew jealous, they became stubborn and tried to demand ridiculous bargains. And sometimes you had no alternative save to accept.

Thus there's dopaminergic activation during schadenfreude—gloating over an envied person's fall from grace.

It is not just that we want more but that we want more than others, who at the same time want more than us; this fuels an endless race.

their books do not sell as well as mine do.

The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr, remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. It is the most contented sound in the world.

She had always envied the wind. So free. Blowing where it listed. Through the hills. Over the lakes. What a tang, what a zip it had! What a magic of adventure!

Strange, ain't it, how folks seem to resent anyone being born a mite cleverer than they be.

It isn't fair she should have everything and I nothing. She isn't better or cleverer or much prettier than me…only luckier.

And then the petty jealousy of these small prunes-and-prisms places — if you do anything the people you went to school with can't do some of them will never forgive you.

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

No ass had the right to look that good in plain old dark blue denim, Sheridan mused as she stared after him.

We people aren't too different from the cows, are we? Never content with what we have, always leaning through the fence in search of more.

You're as tough as you are beautiful, which means a lot of women must hate you on sight, and the men can't decide whether to try to compete with you or sleep with you.

I was a girl and I had the best deadly toys in the room. Gun envy is an ugly thing.

I'd like to be jealous," Galen said. "I was all set to be jealous, but damn, Frost, can you just teach me how to do it?

Oh, don't be silly - EVERYONE wants this. Everyone wants to be us.

O how I envied him his feelings!

Rumors are spread by jealous people

You envy me my educated tastes.

A treat indeed, to read Raymond Chandler for the first time. I almost envied the man

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

There is no love; There are only the various envies, all of them sad.

I refuse to give into the sad reflex of French envy because this envy paralyzes our country.