Envious Quotes

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 it.

...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.

The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

When I see other rappers' lyrics of "I don't do what I don't like to do", I feel like it's really cool and there's also an envious side to me about it.

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

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

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

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

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

The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

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

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

I know that I have a lot of friends who are envious of me. But if there is something to be gained, obviously something else has to be lost, right? Lately I miss the things I’ve lost.

As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself

The envious will die, but envy never.

The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that you can say well yes, all right, if there is going to be god or gods then you have to admit that they're very at the very least capricious. They're certainly not consistent. They're certainly not all loving.

Those who object to wit are envious of it.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

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

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

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

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

The silence of the envious is too noisy.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.

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

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.

The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.

Live the Life you'd be envious of if you saw someone else living it.

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

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

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

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