Quotes About Envy

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

Do not despise or hate your neighbor because he has been a success; take care of your own case.

Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.

What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.

Some people are allergic to your success. Such people...when you smile...they cry, and wish you were dead.

It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.

I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others.

For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why.

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

It is wicked of you to call on the wrath of God to satisfy your jealousy!

Has not, they would say, this Cornelius de Witt been locked up and broken by the rack? Shall we not see him pale, streaming with blood, covered with shame? And was not this a sweet triumph for the burghers of the Hague, whose envy even beat that of the common rabble; a triumph in which every honest citizen and townsman might be expected to share?

Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart.

Mas, se não há inimigos, talvez haja invejosos: aos dezenove anos, vai ser nomeado capitão, o que na sua situação é um posto bem elevado… Vai se casar com uma bela mulher que o ama, o que é uma felicidade rara em qualquer lugar da terra… Esses dois favores de seu destino podem ter lhe proporcionado invejosos.

In a democracy private citizens see a man of their own rank in life who becomes possessed of riches and power in a few years; this spectacle excites their surprise and envy, and they are led to inquire how the person who was yesterday very equal is today their ruler. To attribute his rise to his talents or his virtues is unpleasant; for it is tacitly to acknowledge that they are themselves less virtuous and less talented than he was.

Democratic institutions strongly tend to promote the feeling of envy.

Once you possess something others do not, you are a target for the wicked.

Talent is something you're born with. It's a gift and a curse, and it's often cause for jealousy from those who are without it.

For green is love and luck just as it is jealousy and envy

Envy is envy, both for the wind and for men on earth. The better the place, the more others covet what you have. Be a pauper, a wanderer, a secret in the darkness of night. Once you possess something others do not, you are a target for the wicked.