Envy Quote by Sianne Ngai

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

— Richard Eyre

In snowboarding, I've always looked at really strong competitors through a lens of gratitude rather than envy in the sense that the better my…

— Amy Purdy

“Treachery is always a hairy caterpillar bred of a small butterfly called envy, no matter how lofty the principles involved.”

— Fazil Iskander

“Who would have thought you had so many supporters?" she whispered. "Not mine, my love. Yours. I had not a one till you started…

— Michele Sinclair

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they…

— John Milton

“You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.

— St. Catherine of Siena

Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer…

— Edouard Boubat

I avoid envy at all costs.

— Claudia Winkleman

“Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated.”

— Jeff Wheeler

Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of…

— Eckhart Tolle

There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.

— Groucho Marx