Envious Quotes

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

— Melody Minagar

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

— Holbrook Jackson

“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

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

— Anna Brownell Jameson

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

— John Cleese

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

— Sloane Crosley

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

— Egon Schiele

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

— John Quincy Adams

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

— Stephen Fry

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

— Jonathan Franzen

Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through…

— John Vianney

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

— Luis Suarez

“I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000…

— Michael Collins

Comparing [our] blessings [with others] is almost certain to drive out joy. We cannot be grateful and envious at the same time.…

— Quentin L. Cook

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to…

— Christopher Hitchens

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

— Arthur Keith

Anytime you feel jealous or envious, you reject your uniqueness. It's a criticism of God's plan for you.

— Rick Warren

Be aware of emotional toxins as well as physical toxins. Be aware of what you are thinking. Clear yourself at the end…

— Gary Zukav

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Helmut Schoeck

Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.

— Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

I wouldn't wear turtlenecks. That I'm not envious of. But who knows? I might sneak out a few things and hope and…

— Simon Helberg

Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false nails, sixteen pounds of make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker…

— Maynard James Keenan