Quotes About Envy

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

having people talk about you is an indication of how much more exciting your life is than theirs.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Better an unsung HERO than the source of envy.

The life that brings light in the family often attracts darkness in form of envy and hatred that stands as encumbrances

I've learnt to gather simplicity from grasshoppers. I like their naive indecisive minds never knowing exactly when to stop chirping, and I envy their ability to be able to mingle with the green…

Jealousy is a general human behavior, Until it's not changed.

Some people may decide to hate you for no reason simply because your confidence reminds them of their insecurities.

Growing up in Northern California, I've only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases.

People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.

One shouldn't envy another person's Destiny!As the fate written for everyone is not the same but surely a good one.

must confess the sin of envy. I have secretly envied those who enjoyed a success greater than mine or received more recognition. I've thought to myself, and even to God, Why not me? Didn't I work as hard or have as much talent? and so on. I know that is petty, but it is part of my fallen condition.

The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile,Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'dThe mother of mankind.

My problem was not with comfort or monetary wealth. My problem was with a way of life in which those who have more than they need are envied or extolled, while those who are materially poor are scorned or forgotten.

Music is the music of all music, and I am jealous.

if children could be cloistered with other children, stripped of responsibility and independence, encouraged to develop only the trivializing emotions of greed, envy, jealousy, and fear, they would grow older but never truly grow up.

But she has an insecure core that desperately needs to be more than a pretty face. She is accustomed to being the center of attention, and when the spotlight slides my way, she deflates, her anxieties twisting into anger that homes in on me, as if I've stolen that spotlight from her.

A bumblebee buzzed past, off on unknowable insect errands. Its body was fat, furry, striped in a way she could only envy. It did not sing. It did not speak. It did not stop to dance for her, or to challenge her to a game of riddles. Fear twisted in her gut, unfamiliar as a needle in a butterscotch pudding. The rules of this world, whatever they were, seemed to be consistent and cruel: they were not nonsense, no, not nonsense at all.

Envy is the offspring of pride,

That looks so delicious. My people would never let me have something like that. But maybe you will!

She's elegant," Olivia stated. "I would kill to have her figure." "Really?" "Of course. I have always wished to look precisely like her. Though obviously, not enough to avoid food," she added. "That's madness. You have everything she doesn't." Olivia opened her mouth, ready to argue. "Everything she hasn't." She frowned at him. "Including me.

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

Hope is ever required of you just like love/faith/courage. I mean, a hope for a good day/good time never a bad day/bad time. A hope for an enviable success/future never a miserable success/future. A hope for a positive change never a negative change. A hope for an appointment never a disappointment and stuffs like that. Now all that implies, you've got to hope high/well all-round/all times.

Para neutralizar a los envidiosos, deberíamos salir a la calle con muletas. Únicamente el espectáculo de nuestra degradación humaniza algo a nuestros amigos y a nuestros enemigos.