Quotes About Envy

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That's a whole different kettle of envy.

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

Ever since I was a kid I just thought that women had the better outfits, women had the better hair, women got to wear makeup. I just got jealous of what women got to do onstage. You dress up a man and ultimately it's just a different variation on the same kind of suit. There's a whole wide world of what women wear onstage.

Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do.

You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.

I have friends who write all the time, and I envy them terribly.

I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory.

A poor person in my community doesn't see a person driving a Tesla and say, 'That benefits me.'

Any designer believes his gun is the best, and when its test performance is a bit less impressive compared to others, he feels bitterness and envy.

You earn millions hosting a hit TV show. You've got a wicked house by the beach, your car does two hundred miles per hour and your girlfriend is a model. I officially bloody hate you.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

To make my body a temple pure Wherein I dwell serene; To care for the things that shall endure, The simple, sweet and clean. To oust out envy and hate and rage, To breathe with no alarm; For Nature shall be my anchorage, And none shall do me harm.

I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire. Another life is never safely envied.

sociales, la envidia y la cobardía. Si esos rebaños se compusieran de bestias corajudas lo hubieran hecho pedazos todo. Creer en el montón es creer que se puede tocar la luna con la mano. Vea lo que le pasó a Lenin con el campesino ruso. Pero ya está todo organizado y no cabe otra cosa

Is it just me, or is that guy the coolest boyfriend ever invented?" "It's not just you." And there was that same dull pain-the one I get sometimes when I see the two of them together and realize I'll never have that. I gave Amanda a smile. "He's great. I'm really happy for you." And that was a hundred percent true. But it didn't make it hurt any less.

No one can have so little that someone else can find nothing to envy. Poverty and simplicity were not shields from the greed of others. If you had nothing left to steal, they'd take your body and enslave it.