Quotes About Envy

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

From Fronto I learned to observe what envy and duplicity and hypocrisy are in a tyrant, and that generally those among us who are called Patricians are rather deficient in paternal affection.

it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox.

The proud hate pride – in others.

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

If a friend got a big promotion, I would outwardly congratulate them, but inside I would painfully compare myself with them and think that their success was a reflection on my failings.

All the things that can happen to an artist regardless of how prepared they are and how smart they are and hard-working they are and attractive - doesn't matter. There's always somebody cuter. There just is.

I guess, when I go there in the centre, when I do my rehabilitation, I look at the people with only one leg and I actually envy them because I'd love to have one leg. I guess the ones that only have one leg, they envy the ones that they are only missing one leg below the knee, and on and on.

There are some people who, when they fall in love or feel envious, may easily feel rejected. Any real or perceived rejection could bring them to the edge of absurdity. Sometimes they even become liars.

The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion - he is envied for his position, but he well knows his position.

Great writing fills me with hopeful enthusiasm and never envy.

I know that there are many people who are hoping that things don't go well for me.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

I've just started to get really envious when I go into people's houses and see books on a shelf.

I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

If you knew how many hidden depths I had your pretty eyes would pop right out of your winsome face. Not literally of course - that would be disgusting. I wouldn't envy the man who had to clean up a pair of popped eyes, especially given the state of this deck. I'm not sure we even have any cleaning products that work for popped eyes, although I suppose a general viscera cleaner would do the trick.

She'd always been one of those girls who wanted what anyone else had, even if she didn't want it.

She had perfect skin, so free of blotches or wrinkles, her face so perfect and character-free she could have just popped out of the womb. They all seemed unfinished. I wanted them to go away.

The house was like something from a catalog, and there were two BMWs in the driveway and these were not people who

It was about the worst outcome possible for my competitive wife: a town of contented also-rans.

Olen aina ollut parempi kuin Hopet; se joka selvisi hengissä. Silti olen aina, ihan aina ollut mustasukkainen seitsemälle tuonpuoleisessa tanssivalle prinsessalle. He ovat saavuttaneet täydellisyyden joutumatta yrittämään, olematta hetkeäkään olemassa, kun minä olen jumissa maankamaralla ja joudun yrittämään joka päivä, ja joka päivä saatan osoittautua puutteelliseksi.