Envy Quotes

1097 Envy quotes by 766 unique authors

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy… — James Ellroy
I tell you what I envy about people in love - I'd love it if someone knew me I mean really knew me. What I… — Barbra Streisand
[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out… — Moderata Fonte
I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice — Walter Scott
I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood… — Nicole Krauss
You're shagging a woman who can turn into a dragon? Blast you, Charles, I am sick with envy! — Jeaniene Frost
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on… — Margaret Atwood
Jimmy had been full of himself back then, thinks Snowman with indulgence and a little envy. He’d been unhappy too, of course. It went without… — Margaret Atwood
You've certainly mellowed out... you used to be fun, full of life and emotion. Lust, Greed, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, and Pride. Of course, excessive… — Hiromu Arakawa
Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy,… — Veronica Roth
Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy. — Chuck Palahniuk
Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive… — Henri Nouwen
And okay, fine. If you have to kiss her, you have to kiss her. And believe me, I do not envy you. That's taking one… — Gena Showalter
Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight) — Peter S. Beagle
Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need… — Cecily von Ziegesar
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. — George Bernard Shaw
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. — William Shakespeare
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years… — Philip Pullman
Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power… — Brandon Sanderson
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death? — John Milton
Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with a sullen, sad… — Jack Kerouac
Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me… — Khalil Gibran
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the… — Baruch Spinoza
I envy because of the heart I glutton because of the heart I covet because of the heart I am prideful because of the heart… — Tite Kubo
The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see others having fun.… — Paulo Coelho

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