Envy Quotes - Page 2

Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

Voltaire

The fenced-in dog barks at the one running free.

Marty Rubin

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Harold G. Coffin

Some people suffer from the green-eyed monster called envy.

Ana Monnar

Don't envy those who seems having everything, they don't really have everything. They have what they want and live the life they want but they don't have what they really need.

Ann Marie Aguilar

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

Henry Fielding

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

Oscar Wilde

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

Benjamin Franklin

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a [person].

John Chrysostom

When you're and only child in a family with an only parent, you look at other, bigger families with envy. Mary Alice had a family with a station wagon, a split-level house, and a pool. But then I looked up and saw Mary Alice's toes, as she stood at the edged of the diving board. Her second toe lay on top of her big toe on each foot. I had never seen such a thing. I wondered if Mary Alice's toes would ever prevent her from doing the things she wanted to do in life. "Look, y'all!" she said, forming her perfect body into a perfect swan's dive. I decided then that any time I got frustrated with my overall situation in life, mad or jealous of knee socks or a pink canopy bed in a pink room, I'd take a deep breath and think about Mary Alice's toes. At least I didn't have Mary Alice's toes.

Margaret McMullan

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

Zane Grey

I wanted what women always want: permission. But he'd had that before this book was even written; it was, after all, the first thing I'd envied about him. It was arguably what enabled him to write the book in the first place. ("Envy")

Kathryn Chetkovich

It is difficult to be ambitious without also being envious.

Joseph Epstein

What she has is effortlessly remarkable, the kind of gift you only feel the weight of if it's something you don't have but dearly want.

J.C. Lillis

What a privilege it is to live now, at just this moment, and to be able to go anywhere....

Anna Godbersen

The best heroines, she'd always believed, took their fate into their own hands.

Anna Godbersen

It's a curious thing that the mental life seems to flourish with its roots in spite, ineffable and fathomless spite. Always has been so! Look at Socrates, in Plato, and his bunch round him! The sheer spite of it all, just sheer joy in pulling somebody else to bits...Protagoras, or whoever it was! And Alcibiades, and all the other little disciple dogs joining in the fray! I must say it makes one prefer Buddha, quietly sitting under a bo-tree, or Jesus, telling his disciples little Sunday stories, peacefully, and without any mental fireworks. No, there's something wrong with the mental life, radically. It's rooted in spite and envy, envy and spite. Ye shall know the tree by its fruit.

D.H. Lawrence

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

Suzanne Collins

Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues. Such people are convinced that the doors of heaven will be opened only to poor wretches like themselves who go through life without leaving any trace but their threadbare attempts to belittle others and to exclude - and destroy if possible - those who, by the simple fact of their existence, show up their own poorness of spirit, mind, and guts. Blessed be the one at whom the fools bark, because his soul will never belong to them.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.

Anna Godbersen

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

Debbie Macomber

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Joseph Heller

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

Anna Godbersen

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

No bird ever looked at a plane in envy

Iain Thomas

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

Graham Greene

When the sun rises it casts a shadow on what does not shine as bright as it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Envy isn’t always green; it’s often black and white!" (On book reviews - from an article written in 2013)

Eric J. Gates

Pamela was beautiful, it was true, and I felt that submerged attraction to her that everyone felt for the beautiful.

Emma Cline

Before her angry impulses got the better of her, she admonished herself that she was born to win and that one did not win by throwing temper tantrums--at least not outside of one's own home, which could result in vicious, spurious rumors.

Anna Godbersen

One did not win by throwing temper tantrums.

Anna Godbersen

Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.

Richard Brookhiser

And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned by their name.

Seneca

If some talents were withheld, the Withholder knows why. He has done all things well.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

William Arthur Ward

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

John Calvin

Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous. There, at any rate, one can … Oh, but even now I am lying! I am lying because I know myself that it is not underground that is better, but something different, quite different, for which I am thirsting, but which I cannot find! Damn underground!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Judgement is so often a thwarted, frustrated expression of envy.

Elizabeth Winder

The happiness of being envied is glamour.Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.

John Berger

Gain fame, and the paparazzi or media waits and watches for them to slip, just to shame their name.

Anthony Liccione

Envy is a buzz killer."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up.

Habeeb Akande

I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!

Christopher Marlowe

Once she was standing by her locker and her puka shells broke and scattered and she made a joke about it but he could tell she was upset. He wanted to buy her some more. He wanted to give her a million strands of little nesting polished shells, and tropical flowers and ice creams and lemonades and a pale blue surfboard to teach her to surf on and anything else she wanted. Instead he let his checkered Vans step on one of the rolling shells and crush it.

Francesca Lia Block

Envy yearns to find flaws.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Learn to love your haters, they are a wonderful source of inspiration.

Habeeb Akande

Jealousy was essentially "I want what you have," while envy was "I want what you have, but I also want to take it away so you can't have it.

Meg Wolitzer

Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Stretch an unwavering tenacity when facing bad to worse attitudes.

Angelica Hopes

If you just can’t get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you’d be envious of you.

Charles F. Glassman

I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted to be him. I coveted his talents, face, style. I wanted to wake up with them all transferred to me.

Hanif Kureishi

What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?""Everything, since he has a command and I have not.

Patrick O'Brian

People that are jealous and envious of you are too freaking lazy to step up their own game.

April Mae Monterrosa

While some of us burned on the edges of life, insatiable and straining to see more deeply in, he sat complacently at the centre and let life come to him — so much of it, evidently, that he could not keep track of his appointments.

John Updike

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.

Aristotle

A hint of jealously once in a while is not only natural but a compliment therefore, always smile and accept it graciously for it shows they care...

Virginia Alison

A friendship has but one chief adversary and that is envy. It is sired by resentment with the potential consequence of unresolved estrangement." She looked at the woman in conflict and said, "Do not envy her but imagine what it took for her to have what you resent her for. Would you want to embark upon her journey instead of your own to procure it? You notice her abundance but overlook her losses; do not envy her because she would rather have your friendship than your envy." The woman looked at her and nodded in accord, "And how do you do that?" she asked. The woman sighed in reflective thought. "By changing the way you think.

Donna Lynn Hope

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