Quotes About Envy

Oh, I envy you!" he cried. "You are still nourished by yesterday's alms, but yesterday's happiness no longer nourishes me.

No: ill-humour arises from an inward consciousness of our own want of merit, from a discontent which ever accompanies that envy which foolish vanity engenders.

Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all... be happy just the way you are.

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone - and this is my biggest satisfaction.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity – it's envy.

One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor.

If we give up the notion that everybody's life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody's life is perfect.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence and focus, and they pay for this later in life.

Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.

They criticize because they don't have a life. It's easy to criticize another person.

My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.

The fact that I couldn't understand his life experience very well, combined with how he was a year ahead of me and really into all his academics, the literary magazine, et cetera—that meant that all the time, he got to be the big man and I was looking up at him with wide eyes. And that was what he liked about me. And why he despised me.

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

Happiness is only having something better than others.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Young man, there is America—which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

And within her something was screaming: "Oh, my God! Oh, my God! He knows French. And those girls that can row and everything. And me, I don't know anything. Oh, God, what'll I do?

Fortuna Lacalle was an imbecile who gave himself the airs of an eminent jurist, but over and above his self-regard, he was dyspeptically envious of judges who actually deserved their high office.

Ah!" he exclaimed, "how right you were to tell me to marry respectably; to have a solid position; to live in decorous fear of the world and one's wife; and to command the envy of the poor, the good opinion of the rich. You have practised what you preach.

Envy and wrath shorten the life, and carefulness bringeth age before the time.

They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.