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Quotes About Envy

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.
~ Carrie Underwood
I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.
~ Liz Phair
I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.
~ Laura Mvula
People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.
~ Al Jourgensen
Other people just look so comfortable with a book in their hands - I never feel like that.
~ Bob Mortimer
I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.
~ Richard Eyre
I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.
~ Jeremy Irons
Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
~ Kelly LeBrock
I hated myself. I hated people who made war. I hated people who were normal. I envied them. I wish I would be normal.
~ Phan Thi Kim Phuc
My haters is bigger than life.
~ Young Dolph
Haters will always hate.
~ Patrice Evra
When you get haters you actually feel like you're a success.
~ Sir Mix-a-Lot
Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
~ Pamela Adlon
Everyone hates the best clubs, it is as simple as that.
~ Phil Jones
There are guys out there that have got to make a living on hating on somebody.
~ Joe Flacco
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
~ Ovid
Yes, Clay Matthews has a long, golden, Fabio-esque flowing mane that most women would chick-slap someone for. And yes, the shiny, beautiful, dark locks that cascade out of Troy Polamalu's helmet are the envy of volume-challenged women and bald men everywhere. But do we need to talk about it incessantly?
~ Julie Foudy
I showed everyone the medal and they said, 'Ooh, I can't believe how heavy it is,' Sometimes they were more interested in the medal than in me. I was like, 'Hey, what about me?'
~ Sarah Hughes
Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.
~ George Orwell
She also stirred a sort of envy in him by telling him that during the Two Minutes Hate her great difficulty was to avoid bursting out laughing. But she only questioned the teachings of the Party when they in some way touched upon her own life. Often she was ready to accept the official mythology, simply because the difference between truth and falsehood did not seem important to her.
~ George Orwell
Invidia e un lucru oribil. Se deosebeste de toate celelalte suferinte pentru ca nu poate fi deghizata, nu poate fi inaltata pana la tragedie. E mai mult decat simpla durere, e dezgustatoare.
~ George Orwell
Thomas: Wow, that treehouse is like twice the size of our actual house. Pam (whispering): Don't say 'like.' Me: Oh, ha ha, let him say what he wants, let's not be-- Thomas: That treehouse is twice the size of our actual house.
~ George Saunders