Quotes About Envy

I was so envious of everyone who went to Sylvia Young Theatre School. I wanted to go, but my dad flat-out refused. He thought I'd become some tapdancing freak without qualifications. And he was right in a way. I'm glad I didn't go. That might have changed.

So I went to sleep thinking of her, of the curve of her back in a light cotton dress, of her hair twisted up into its crown of braids, of her, leaping from the zenith of the plastic swing set and clearing the sandbox, turning a neat lap around the whole of Eastwood, California, while I stood there, trapped in the dreariness of it all, numbly watching.

Do not fret because of evildoers, Nor be envious of the workers of iniquity. (Psalm 37:1)

Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Unable to live a life with joy and freedom in it, some people try to snuff out whatever other expressions of joy and freedom they see around them. If you can't have a soul yourself, some people seem to think, then destroy those who do have souls.

As you know, when an American sees another driving a Cadillac, he says to himself: 'One day I too will drive a Cadillac.' But when a Frenchman feels intimidated by someone else's car, he says: 'Why can't the bum drive a jalopy, like everyone else?

The auction proposes what the envy test in fact assumes, that the true measure of the social resources devoted to the life of one person is fixed by asking how important, in fact, that resource is for others. [The auction] insists that the cost, measured in that way, figures in each person's sense of what is rightly his and in each person's judgment of what life he should lead, given that command of justice.

Danny: I'm a bit jealous, Sheila. Sheila: Are you, my dear? What on earth for? Danny: Well, because you've really lived, Sheila. Sheila: Of course I have, Daniel. What else is life for?

Human nature is always desirous of what one has not got!

Não lhe bastava ser casada entre quatro paredes e algumas árvores; precisava do resto do mundo, também. E quando eu me vi embaixo, pisando as ruas com ela, parando, olhando, falando, senti a mesma coisa. Inventava passeios para que me vissem, me confirmassem e me invejassem.

Do you are laugh because you are successful or because another one is unfortunate?

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

Some people talk about other people's failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

Jealousy often turns people into irresponsible storytellers.

I never fail. It's just that the people around me succeed more than I.

Every victory and success that God will give you will make others jealous it will cause hatred and opposition as well

the only difference between you and someone you envy is you settled for less

Your success increases your haters...!!!

Some people are each envious of the person they used to be.

Watch out for those who celebrate your success with bitterness in their hearts! surely, they'll hail you for what you are, and hate you for what you have become.

Excellence annoys your haters, success infuriates them, and genius kills them.