Envious Quote by Jean Genet

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

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

— Stephen Fry

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

— John Quincy Adams

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

— Egon Schiele

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

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

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

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

— James Salter

“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

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

— Tim Fargo

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

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

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

— Jonathan Franzen