Quotes About Envy

He could not help, too, rolling his large eyes round him as he ate, and chuckling with the possibility that he might one day be lord of all this scene of almost unimaginable luxury and splendor. Then, he thought, how soon he'd turn his back upon the old school-house; snap his fingers in the face of Hans Van Ripper, and every other niggardly patron, and kick any itinerant pedagogue out of doors that should dare to call him comrade!

Honor isn't about other people, it's about what you want to be," Louise said. "A hero does the good and noble thing. The villain allows fear or envy or selfishness to let him ignore what is right.

Along with every other male of his acquaintance he loathed the Naked Chef with messianic passion and prayed for the day he suffered a fatal accident on his scooter or burst into flames with the friction of sliding down that nauseating banister. Mark hated to think how rich he must be. And the fact that a mere bloody cook was taking up space in The Times that could be filled by a train journalist. Like himself, for example. Bastard.

Well, I'm not as lucky as you to have this every day.

You can't really blame folks for thinking you might be disappointed," Henry replied. "You have to watch the Harmonicandy get all the glory. Under your own roof, no less! And after you'd worked so hard on your Bubbletastic ChocoRocket.

But don't men have breast and womb envy?

They will always judge you for what they don't know how to do.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

Seninle ayn? masaya oturan ya da seninle ayn? evde ya?ayan birinin herhangi bir büyük i? ba?araca??na inanamazs?n. Senin yak?n çevrende, küçük adam, dü?ünmek çok güçtür; insan ancak sana dair dü?ünür, seninle birlikte de?il. Çünkü büyük dü?ünceleri, geni? kapsaml? dü?ünceleri g?rtlaklars?n sen.

The stubbornness of an intelligent person is seen as likely to be justified and may actually evoke respect, but intelligence in an envious and stubborn person makes him more dangerous.

los envidiosos te envidian hasta la miseria.

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.

Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.

So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. You've had a taste of God. Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God's pure kindness. Then you'll grow up mature and whole in God. 1 Peter 2:1–3, THE MESSAGE

They who turn their backs towards other men laugh at their ambitions

No one would ever find time to read such a collection, but libraries like that are not intended to be read, only envied.

Skills which are so great as to amaze those of lesser talents are always mistrusted. Thus

The moment you begin to consider having more than someone else, you begin to fear you might end up with less than someone else.

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

Now but before a fool's opinion of himself," the brown man cried, "the Gods are powerless. Oh, yes, and envious, too!

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.

glimpse through the slats of a city mad with the day-to-day grind, moving and grooving. In a way he felt envious of those people, completely oblivious that a crazy

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.