Envious Quotes · Page 3

I feel envious of people who have been connected to music throughout their lives.

— Deepti Naval

You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn.

— Sylvia Plath

I never understood the nudity thing. I’m so envious of people who can walk around naked.

— Robert Pattinson

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

— Mason Cooley

It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become.

— Rolf Dobelli

The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.

— Helmut Schoeck

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

— Charlotte Lennox

The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]

— Moliere

No one would deny that feeling envy is unpleasant, or that feeling envious sometimes leads us down a path we wish we…

— Maria Konnikova

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

At first glance Im happy for them, but deep down Im envious. I want what they have, the love they share. All…

— Andreya Roberts

Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at…

— Young Jeezy

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world,…

— Frank Ocean

“Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art…

— John Steinbeck

Don't be envious of people with the perfect life, try to sacrifice your time as individuals towards achieving the best life you…

— Kemmy Nola

“Then had her envious heart rest, at least such rest as a heart full of envy and malice ever can have.”

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and our surroundings have a crucial effect on…

— Radhanath Swami

I'm envious of the way that electronic dance music has organised itself. It has been able to understand what it ain't rather…

— Chuck D

For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave…

— William Shakespeare

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

“I wonder what it must be like to have a life full of experiences. All these girls are around my age, but…

— Ciye Cho

I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids…

— Frank Deford

“Quit being envious of someone else’s achievements because envy is totally a time stealer, a time waster, a focus stealer and a…

— Euginia Herlihy

“Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in…

— Kamand Kojouri

Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious,…

— Bernard Baruch

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

— John Vianney

But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“There are going to be times in our lives when someone else gets an unexpected blessing or receives some special recognition. May…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have…

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Stephen Fry

Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to…

— Oscar Wilde

Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with…

— Jack Kerouac

I am always so envious of people who do whatever they want.

— Claire Foy

While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

— Horace

“The immoral can no more earn respect Than the envious be rich.”

— Tiruvalluvar

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

— Pindar

Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I

— Alfred Kreymborg

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

— Socrates

I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

— Jeaniene Frost

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

— Howard Hodgkin