I'm envious of writers.

I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline.

— Michael Keaton

Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious…

— Helmut Schoeck

“Then her envious heart had peace, as much as an envious heart can have.”

— Grimm Brothers

I'm not envious of Leo [Messi]or Ney [Neymar]. Why would I be? If there is envy in the dressing room, you know it's only…

— Luis Suarez

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

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

— Tim Fargo

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

— James Salter

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

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

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

“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

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

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