Quotes About Envy

La comparación es el ladrón de la felicidad» —contestó el millonario—. Siempre hay alguien que tiene más fortuna, más fama o más cosas que tú.

I envied Elizabeth- but I admired Groot. Because if you truly believed in the lightning bolts, why not do everything in your power to take them for yourself.

In pleasant peace and security How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die He shall look up above the stalled oxen Envying the cruel falcon, And dig under the straw for a stone To bruise himself on.

You can't hate a proov when you're near one, because you want to be like them, you ache to be like them. You want to be perfect, too, and you know if you were improved you'd act just like they do, and feel what they feel, and glide through the world with sky-colored eyes and hair like sunlight, and nothing dirty or broken could ever touch you.

Revenge, greed, resentment, envy, and patriotism made for an inflammatory mix.

Till the very end, he saw the producers' outrage against him as shot through with envy and hypocrisy.

Recoiling at what he saw as the Clark brothers' pomposity, he eventually grew as censorious of them as he had been of George Gardner.

The sudden wealth of young businessmen such as Rockefeller fed envy among returning soldiers, who wished to emulate their good fortune.

Bill had relatively little contact with his rich sons, John and William, but was extremely close to the envious Frank, who shared his love of fishing and hunting.

I felt a little envious for a second. If I got offed in the woods late one night, I doubted if three tough guys would go straight to someone's office, eight in the morning, champing at the bit, ready for revenge. Then I looked at the three of them again and thought, This particular perp could be in a shitload of trouble. All I'd have to do is drop a name.

When I woke in the dark I was smiling - it's a happy thing to brace for a visit from old friend Envy who then for some reason never shows up.

sooner will there exist a body without a shadow than virtue unaccompanied by envy.

O Time, consumer of all things! O envious age, thou destroyest all things and devourest all things with the hard teeth of the years little by little, in slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror and saw the withered wrinkles which old age had made in her face wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

Non appena nasce la virtù, nasce contro di lei l'invidia, e farà prima il corpo a perdere la sua ombra che la virtù la sua invidia.

Now I think people today should envy any of us who lived through the early seventies. It was such a time of hope and possibility, and ferment, and progress, and change, and media attention, and brilliant activist women everywhere you turned.

Je vois personne sur la route, dit Alice. Comme je voudrais avoir d'aussi bons yeux, remarqua le roi d'un ton amer. Voir Personne! Et à cette distance encore! Moi, tout ce dont je suis capable de voir, sous cette lumière, c'est des gens!

But why not take pride in this country? It's the envy of the world. A place where any man can realize his dream. We, the dreamers, built this nation. The Indians and slaves might disagree, Jericho shot back.

Miss Temple, perhaps you will demonstrate the proper curtsy for us? Without ado, Cecily temple, She Who Can Do No Wrong, settles to the floor in a long, slow, graceful arc that seems to defy gravity. It is a thing of beauty. I am hideously jealous. Thank you, Miss Temple. Yes. Thank you, you little demon beast. May you marry a man who eats garlic with every meal.

For a brief while, the women ask us questions: are we looking forward to our debuts? Did we enjoy this opera or that play? As we give our slight answers, they smile, and I cannot read what is behind their expressions. do they envy us our youth and beauty? Do they feel happiness and excitement for the lives that lie ahead of us? Or do they wish for another chance at their own lives? A different chance?

Está celoso! Kartik está celoso y Simon me ve...apetitosa. Me siento complacida. Y desconcertada. Pero sobretodo complacida.

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

excitement of it. He'd been the golden boy

No woman who builds a career on hard work and talent will ever compliment a much younger one who uses the shallow gift of her looks.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt