As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed…

Let your love drive you mad, mad about life, mad about the smell of Jasmine. Mad about the painting that reminds you of one…

— Melody Minagar

The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that…

— Stephen Fry

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

— John Quincy Adams

I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to…

— Egon Schiele

Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I'm always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off…

— Sloane Crosley

I was a kid when the Tamagotchi craze hit, and I was always envious of my friends and cousins who got to hand-rear their…

— Sarah Jeong

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

— John Cleese

Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

I made a decision to stop feeling envious of other people, to crack on with my life and stop comparing myself with others.

— Jess Phillips

Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

— James Salter

“There, display and extravagance, in dress, in furniture, in costly entertainments, are startling. They seem to push you back into a corner, like a…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it.”

— Tim Fargo

Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and…

— Holbrook Jackson

Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be…

— Anonymous

The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment.…

— Jonathan Franzen