Quotes About Envy

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

And Nurd, who had never had a mother and father, and who had never loved or been loved, marvelled at the ways in which feeling so wonderful could also leave one open to so much pain. In a strange way, he envied Samuel even that. He wanted to care about someone so much that it could hurt.

he would envy each and every living thing its freedom, even if it was only the freedom to die.

To those who are themselves unhappy, the contentment of others can sometimes be mistaken for tedium.)

And I knew, too, that to live a life like Walter Cole's—a life almost mundane in the pleasure it derived from small happinesses and the beauty of the familiar, but uncommon in the value it attached to them—was something to be envied.

Below the surface of the most civilised human beings, the hunger-lust darts and snaps like a fish, snatches and rends like a bird, growls like a wolf, snarls like a panther, buzzes like a hornet, bleats like a sheep and stamps like a bull; and there is nothing so aggravating to hungry stomachs as the sight of dirty plates pushed away from satisfied rival stomachs.

They will not let my play run, and yet they steal my thunder!

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree,Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us,If lecherous goats, if serpents enviousCannot be damn'd; alas; why should I be?

Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind.

So many Americans felt that their neighbor had no right to know more than they did.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening

Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?

Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

People say I have a picture perfect life, and I do

You feel like everyone hates you if you've got a good life, now I feel maybe it's allowed because I've had my share of sadness.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.

Live the Life you'd be envious of if you saw someone else living it.

There were a lot of people, I found, whod rather watch me live my life than live their own life.