Quotes About Envy

She let the jealousy slip out of her fingertips.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

I don't envy him. I think he's made too much money. The more material things you have, the more you have to lose.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

I live like a cuckoo in a clock, I'm not jealous of the forest birds. They wind me up—and I cuckoo. You know—such a fate I could only wish For someone I hate.

From the first, Giles had enjoyed staying with the Talbots. They welcomed him with a generosity that he'd always known was exceptional. But envy tinged his gratitude. Because however kind this noisy, loving, exuberant clan was, however willingly they included him in their festivities, he remained an outsider. An outsider yearning after the lovely daughter of the house like grim Hades yearned after bright Persephone. Darkness hungering for irresistible light.

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.

We are surrounded by braggarts whose loud mouths propel their thin talent as far as the wind carries.

But Kievan Rus's glory days were short-lived. Lying on his deathbed in 1054 Yaroslav had pleaded with his offspring to 'love one another' for 'If ye dwell in envy and dissension, quarrelling with one another, then ye will perish yourselves and bring to ruin the land of your ancestors . . .'11

W-what are you?" Selena looked down at her rival. "What you should have been and never were. The Queen of the Witches.

Rumors often reflect the wishes of others.

El objeto más envidiable y el más caro era el coche, sinónimo de libertad, de control total del espacio, y en cierta manera, del mundo.

Aqueles que admiravam as nossas coisas velhas, a bomba d'água no pátio, as casas normandas com viga de madeira aparente, certamente queriam nos impedir de ter o que eles já tinham, eles que eram tão modernos, com água na torneira e uma casa branca.

The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never met.

I would be like, 'Oh, my gosh, I wish I could go to prom.' But then I think, 'You know what? A lot of people can't say they've ever done what I do - they'll never have this opportunity.'

Since I am wise, some people envy me, some think I'm idle, some the opposite, and some feel threatened. Yet I'm not all that wise.

For of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Überstrahlst du solche, die sich hochgelehrt im Geist bedünken, bist du rings ein Ärgernis. (Medeia)

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

The classes of citizens are three. The rich are useless, always lusting after more. Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues; their malice stings the owners. Of the three, the middle part saves cities.

but by his present fortune he proclaims clearly to all mortals to learn not to envy him who seems prosperous, till one sees him dead, as fortune is but for the day.

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