Quotes About Envy

Secretly she envied those who went out and about, while she remained in the grip of her sentences.

Of course, the spectacle of two people's happiness is always something of a magnet for the unclaimed.

What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them – that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.

she thought envy was the most destructive of emotions. It ate away at your guts and your brain and it stopped you thinking straight. Envy and jealousy.

He had a chip on his shoulder about anybody with a posh voice and a fancy degree.

A tad jealous. She didn't have any personal experience of happy families.

That woman's a ghoul – the delight she takes in other people's misery.

If I had my way, all actors over 55 would be issued a 3-lb. wet salmon with which to slap the face of every young, beautiful, successful upstart.

Everyone always gets a little irritated by imitators, but mostly I'm flattered. What if you never did anything anyone wanted to copy?

There's a lot of people out here faking a smile on their face like they got it together but inside actually suffering from some sort of traumatic experience, a loss, depressed, fearful, envious or whatever the case may be, but I can feel it.

People tend to think when you're at the top, you need bashing down. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

A naughty part of me thinks, how come Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and Tim McInnerny have all done really good parts in a film, whereas I've only ever done bits and bobs? Before I die, wouldn't it be nice to be the scheming old man in a movie?

I guess that is a good compliment for an actor for people to hate you wherever you go.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

I get very envious of my general news colleagues who are always being handed sexy new stuff like global warming, China, and Donald Trump, while my sports colleagues and I must be eternally satisfied with the same old home-court advantage, soccer, and momentum.

For me, I would get so frustrated because I would see these other bands just whip by us.

You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.

In the Big Ten, we disliked the SEC because of the success they had.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

In my dreams, I have Keira Knightley's eyebrows.

I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.