Quotes About Envy

He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.

They're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. 'It makes me sad because I've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before.

My God, she's good-looking! said Mr. Sandwood, who was just over thirty. Good-looking! cried Mr. Hedrick contemptuously, she always looks as if she wanted to be kissed! Turning those big cow-eyes on every calf in town! It was doubtful if Mr. Hedrick intended a reference to the maternal instinct.

I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.

He was one of those who used to sneer most bitterly at Gatsby on the courage of Gatsby's liquor.

There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby's enormous house, so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour.

it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens.

They say envy is a coal that comes hot and hissing straight from hell.

My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves to whom they can tell their dreams and show what would be verses if they wrote them. I'm with those poor slobs who have no books to show, who have no literature beside their own soul, and who are suffocating to death due to the fact that they exist without having taken that mysterious, transcendental exam that makes one eligible to live.

The creation of something complete and whole, be it good or bad – and if it's never entirely good, it's very often not all bad – yes, the creation of something complete seems to stir in me above all a feeling of envy. A completed thing is like a child; although imperfect like everything human, it belongs to us like our own children.

Vivi, estudei, amei, e até cri, E hoje não há mendigo que eu não inveje só por não ser eu.

Vendo passar amantes Nem propriamente inveja ou ódio sinto, Mas um rancor e uma aversão imensa Ao universo inteiro, por cobri-los.

Let's not forget to hate those who enjoy, just because they enjoy, and to despise those who are happy, because we didn't know how to be happy like them.

No solo quien nos odia o nos envidia nos limita y oprime; quien nos ama no menos nos limita.

Envidio —pero no sé si envidio de veras— a aquéllos de quienes se puede escribir una biografía, o que pueden escribir su propia biografía. En estas expresiones sin continuidad ni deseo alguno de continuidad, narro con indiferencia mi autobiografía sin hechos, mi historia sin vida. Son mis Confesiones, y si en ellas nada digo, es que nada tengo que decir.

I envy in everyone the fact that they are not me.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

Sometimes I just wish I played in a band like Foo Fighters.

I used to study 'Hunky Dory' - and be mad that I hadn't figured out anything that cool!

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

I feel so proud of being able to vote for the first time. I keep looking at the black mark on my finger proudly. For years I envied that tell-tale mark on my parents' finger.

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.