Quotes About Envy

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.

Writers are as jealous as pigeons.

How intolerable people are sometimes who are happy and successful in everything.

Un amor como el mío es un don de la vida. Todos, aun a su pesar, tendrían que haberme dado la enhorabuena... Pero estos amores son aborrecidos, anatematizados, y, aunque no se diga (porque la envidia pregona una insuficiencia), envidiados también. El mundo no ha sido hecho por los felices ni para los felices.

A person who enjoys at the cost of other people's hard work in any profession can be spotted often relishing luxury with own family on the hill station.

A woman is so jealous that she often compares herself with her mother's personality and even feels envious of her mom's beauty, so how it could happen that she spares others & her mother-in-law.

Most people are so wicked in nature that they intentionally give credit of the good job done for everyone by someone else to a wrong person.

People around a person do get jealous of him by seeing his monetary success, but they will not often burn with hatred until they find him employing wrong means to earn, enjoy and make a show-off of his progress and happiness.

People talk mostly against a person behind his back only if he lacks ability but with jacks has attained the position of an authority

People who surround the rich person often bitch about her/him in the background only when s/he is not around them.

The people around a famous person are merely jealous of his popularity; however in case of an overly rich individual, the networking majority are overtly friendly but covertly haters to him only.

We have entered an age where success alone makes us enviable, not our human qualities.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Many success addicts confess that they feel like losers when they see someone else who is yet more successful.

When it comes to personal appearance, people are quick to cast judgment on people who look better than them. It's part of the human inferiority complex.

My friends hate me because I do pick up things really quickly.

If I had one wish, I would say to be born in the '30s and be young in the '50s and '60s. It hurts my racing heart when I see things so far from what it was back then. I envy those guys so much.

Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.

We all have the same core emotions of love, jealousy, rage - it's just how they're expressed.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

If another actor gets a good role, I'm furious.

I'm not a gardener. I wish I was.