Envious Quotes · Page 5

I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in…

— Chris Pine

There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be…

— Johnny Hunt

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the…

— Thomas Nagel

England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.

— William Shakespeare

I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when…

— Liza Campbell

I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

— Chuck Klosterman

I felt envious of the cleaners cleaning the Kaaba. They got a chance to stay close to God and clean the house…

— Sana Khan

Only you can change your life there is nothing wrong with doing something better only the envious will have something to say

— I :P

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

— Christopher Hitchens

A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of…

— Lewis Carroll

“Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay,…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Those who are broad-minded and considerate are like the spring breeze, warm and nurturing, at show touch all being grow. Those who…

— Zicheng Hong

You must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you…

— Stephen Jeffreys

This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society…

— Winston Churchill

The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of…

— Frantz Fanon

The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman…

— Henry Hazlitt

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

— Stephen Fry

I know that I have a lot of friends who are envious of me. But if there is something to be gained,…

— Minzy

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

“Isis, I am envious of every male that sets his sight on you, and if I could, I would tear out their…

— Nely Cab

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and…

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Michael Keaton

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot…

— John Donne

If you are envious, infatuated, competitive, ambitious, jealous, possessive, you will be in misery.

— Anonymous

I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.

— Moby

You meet these people who are confident all the time. They annoy me. And I wonder if it's because I'm envious or…

— Guy Pearce

Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.

— William Shakespeare

“We sometimes congratulate someone, not because we value or find worthy what they have just achieved, but only because we fear coming…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed…

— Plutarch

Don't b envious of those who have everything,be envious of those who have nothing but still have peace in their heart and…

— Anonymous

Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe…

— William Shakespeare

There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.”

— Shannon L. Alder

People ask if I can get it up in the morning. I tell them are you kidding I'm envious of a stiff…

— Rodney Dangerfield

That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— James Salter

I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or...…

— Larry King

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

— Horace

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.

— Roman Polanski

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.

— Joseph Hall