Quotes About Envy

The house negroes of the County considered themselves superior to white trash, and their unconcealed scorn stung him, while their more secure position in life stirred his envy. By contrast with his own miserable existence, they were well-fed, well-clothed and looked after in sickness and old age. They were proud of the good names of their owners and, for the most part, proud to belong to people who were quality, while he was despised by all.

Yet with all the advantages over both friends and enemies which I now possessed I could not honestly say I was happy. I knew I could have every possible enjoyment and amusement the world had to offer--I knew I was one of the most envied among men, and yet, as I stood looking out of the window at the persistently falling rain, I was conscious of a bitterness rather than a sweetness in the full cup of fortune.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

I believe the sin of covetise is that pang of resentment you may feel when even the people you love best have what you want and don't have.

I don't know exactly what covetise is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

Había oído y leído que la política, como todo lo que se vincula al poder, saca a veces a la luz lo mejor del ser humano —el idealismo, el heroísmo, el sacrificio, la generosidad—, pero, también, lo peor, la crueldad, la envidia, el resentimiento, la soberbia.

But she wasn't really listening, because underneath it all ran the fear that it had nothing to do with good fortune, that he had earned this, and she resented him because she could have done it, too, if she'd applied herself properly, become a lawyer, moved to Canada, run a business, and what she saw when she looked at Richard was not his success but her own failure.

But when we believe that only what we want holds the gold, then we find ourselves easily depressed by what we lack. Then we are pained by what we perceive as the difference between here and there, between what we have and what we need.

Comparison is the death of joy.

Freedom consists of being insulated from the envy and ignorance of the unimportant people who temporarily surround her.

It is, after all, envy rather than jealousy that causes most of the trouble in married life.

By resenting others' success, you condition yourself to avoid the very financial abundance that you need and desire.

when it comes to money, delusions that you're better than everybody else can kill you.

The rising in life of our familiar friends is, perhaps, the bitterest morsel of the bitter bread which we are called upon to eat in life.

Mr. Low, having not unnaturally been jealous that a young whipper-snapper of a pupil

You've read some of my stuff?" he asked eagerly, adding with bitterness, " 'The Raven,' I suppose. Such fame as I have appears to rest entirely on the plumage of that gloomy bird.

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 neighbor to have them through envy.

You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.

There were no mysterious murders to baffle the police and to arouse in a million breasts the moral indignation that was often suppressed envy.

The most wonderful people in the world are nothing but raging animals when trapped in the throes of jealousy.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

That's what I should like to be,—envied for my man.