Envy Quotes

A life without envy, hatred and lies was not a life worth living.

Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add,...

They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.

Princess, the great difference between people in this world is not between the rich and the poor or ...

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have...

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Honoring the value of competence and steadfastness requires a generosity of spirit and a curbing of ...

Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well o...

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse th...

Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inh...

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the ...

When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more th...

He beat me when you not here, I say.Who do, she say, Albert?Mr ____, I say.I can't believe it, she s...

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not -...

A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, headmired in others, bu...

Chain of envy linked them, showing each what was lacking in life, but offering also the consolation ...

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the bas...

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.

Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

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

He has a mouth, lord," Gerbruht said."I envy him," I said."Envy him, lord?""Most of us have to lower...

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up frie...

Where envy is unavoidable it must be used as a stimulus to one’s own efforts, not to the thwarting o...

Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to...

They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

The demand for equality has two sources; one of them is among the noblest, the other is the basest, ...

Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism.

Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army...

[He] was a brilliant man. People tend to become wary of individuals like him because their brillianc...

Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rot...

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Charlie Brown: A penny! Rats! Why couldn't I have found a nickel? What good is a penny these days? W...

. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all b...

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

It's a curious thing that the mental life seems to flourish with its roots in spite, ineffable and f...

ur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd bee...

They had paused before the table on which the bride’s jewel were displayed, and Lily’s heart gave an...

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy o...

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, nat...

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' wh...

There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. ...

I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

Still am I the richest and most to be envied - I, the lonesomest one!

You go above and beyond them: but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. A...

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite e...

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and m...

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that s...

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues prid...

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?

Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasure...

I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wan...

...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both not...

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Now envy and antipathy, passions irreconcilable in reason, nevertheless in fact may spring conjoined...

It is better to be envied than pitied.

Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies de...

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability ...

Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only k...

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame ...

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing somethin...

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themsel...

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is mean...

The happiness of being envied is glamour.Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends ...

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superio...

You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

While some of us burned on the edges of life, insatiable and straining to see more deeply in, he sat...

There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved ...

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even a...

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

... the serpent hissing between the lips of Envy is so huge, and so completely fills her wide-opened...

Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persua...

Existential envy which is directed against the other person’s very nature, is the strongest source o...

Existential envy which is directed against the other person’s very nature, is the strongest source o...

The ultimate goal of the arriviste’s aspirations is not to acquire a thing of value, but to be more ...

Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hu...

Envy is human nature.

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verba...

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.