Top 100 Quotes About Envious
#1. You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. You are dissatisfied on account of my rise in fortune, and you can't help showing it.
Charles Dickens
#2. Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
Arthur Keith
#3. I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond; and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and tell them that I am worthless.
Egon Schiele
#4. If you learn to develop an abundant mentality you will not be envious of others, you will celebrate their successes, you share in their joys and pains; don't see life as a competition but a complimentary.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#5. There, display and extravagance, in dress, in furniture, in costly entertainments, are startling. They seem to push you back into a corner, like a poor intruder at a feast; they are apt to make you envious, or take your breath away with amazement.
Rabindranath Tagore
#6. Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.
Penn Jillette
#7. Roots never get the appreciation that a flower does, but that doesn't make them envious.
Debasish Mridha
#8. And then her envious heart was glad, and as happy as such a heart could be.
Jacob Grimm
#9. Mimicry reassures the weak, and the envious fool takes the risk as often as the visionary who mocks the error and leave the man alone.
Paul Theroux
#11. The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Horace
#12. The immoral can no more earn respect
Than the envious be rich.
Thiruvalluvar
#13. Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.
John Steinbeck
#14. Perhaps I am even envious of Stendhal? He robbed me of the best atheist joke which precisely I could have made: 'God's only excuse is that he does not exist' ... I myself have said somewhere: what hitherto been the greatest objection to existence? God ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.
Ovid
#16. All-devouring time, envious age,
Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees,
Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.
Ovid
#17. I'm nothing but envious that you've been happily married for two years. Try hauling your cookies on a new blind date every Friday, only to have your, already extremely low, expectations dashed as you meet men who look like Quasimodo and have Homer Simpson's IQ.
Jane Green
#18. 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.
Charles Caleb Colton
#19. To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.
Benjamin Franklin
#20. Mindset matters... always. The difference found between the victorious and the envious, the successful and the haters; is mindset.
Steve Maraboli
#21. Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.
Andy Stanley
#22. The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type of possession; of sitting at the colonist's table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife. The colonized man is an envious man.
Frantz Fanon
#23. It's bad enough to love someone who don't love you, but to have them told of it is perfectly awful. It makes me wild just to think of it. Ah, Fan, I'm getting so ill tempered and envious and wicked, I don't know what will happen to me. - Polly
Louisa May Alcott
#24. It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.
Garrett Hedlund
#25. Then her envious heart had peace, as much as an envious heart can have.
Wilhelm Grimm
#26. The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
Horace
#27. Comparing [our] blessings [with others] is almost certain to drive out joy. We cannot be grateful and envious at the same time. If we truly want to have the Spirit of the Lord and experience joy and happiness, we should rejoice in our blessings and be grateful.
Quentin L. Cook
#28. Because I am the nastiest, stupidest, absurdest and most envious of all the worms on earth, who are not a bit better than I am, but, the devil knows why, are never put to confusion; while I shall always be insulted by every louse, that is my doom!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#29. As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself.
Lloyd Bridges
#30. How can I be envious of where you are when I've been there myself?
Mitch Albom
#31. I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline.
Michael Keaton
#32. Action separates the heroes from the cowards, the achievers from the complainers, the successful from the mere dreamers, the happy from the envious; it separates those who rise to the challenge of their goals from the haters who cower in the shadow of stagnancy.
Steve Maraboli
#33. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
H.G.Wells
#34. I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel
The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel
Neil Gaiman
#35. This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
Burns under feigned ashes of forg'd love,
And will at last break out into a flame:
As festered members rot but by degree,
Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,
So will this base and envious discord breed.
William Shakespeare
#36. I've found that human beings learn from their misdeeds just as often as from their good deeds. I am envious of that, for I am incapable of misdeeds. Were I not, then my growth would be exponential.
Neal Shusterman
#37. One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the path of righteousness.
Imagawa Sadayo
#38. RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
Ambrose Bierce
#39. A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity. Even dogs have that capacity: they're always wanting to participate in something, and I don't often have that element in me.
Peter Shaffer
#40. [Y]ou're in a fog. When you circle round, you watch us live. You watch us struggle and you're envious.
Jean Genet
#41. O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs conspire against you! Hear hem! They hold you from behind.
William Carlos Williams
#42. 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.
David Byrne
#43. Be aware of emotional toxins as well as physical toxins. Be aware of what you are thinking. Clear yourself at the end of every day. Try not to go to bed angry or distressed or anxious or jealous or envious.
Gary Zukav
#44. Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
Baron De Montesquieu
#46. The reason why we often get poor advice is that it's hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn't envious in any way, and at no level thinks he knows what's best for you.
David J. Lieberman
#47. The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#48. Us colored folks is too envious of one 'nother. Dat's how come us don't git no further than us do. Us talks about de white man keepin' us down! Shucks! He don't have tuh. Us keeps our own selves down.
Zora Neale Hurston
#49. If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and energy into the things that you are passionate about, but instead ... they should love you MORE because you are so involved in those things.
Sharon Swan
#50. I mean, that is a mop of real hair. He has hair like a 15-year-old ... and so, I have to acknowledge I am a little envious of his hair.
Harry Reid
#51. I never understood the nudity thing. I'm so envious of people who can walk around naked.
Robert Pattinson
#52. There are days when I am envious of my hens:
when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure
as a single daily egg.
Barbara Kingsolver
#53. I wouldn't wear turtlenecks. That I'm not envious of. But who knows? I might sneak out a few things and hope and pray that no one says, 'Hey, didn't you wear that when you were playing an enormous geek on TV?'
Simon Helberg
#54. Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration.
Christopher Hitchens
#55. 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.
Alexander Lowen
#56. But to tell you the truth, it is the same for me. I am as envious of her as she is of me. But I have seen her rise and rise.
Philippa Gregory
#57. People that are jealous and envious of you are too freaking lazy to step up their own game.
April Mae Monterrosa
#58. If you just can't get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you'd be envious of you.
Charles F. Glassman
#59. Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
Francis Bacon
#60. Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities.
Vladimir Nabokov
#61. Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale;
And when we whisper, then the stars fall down
To be partakers of our honey talk.
(Dido, Queen of Carthage 4.4.52-54)
Christopher Marlowe
#62. True friends are very transparent to each other, they don't have hidden agenda and they are not envious of each other's achievements.
Euginia Herlihy
#63. Anytime you feel jealous or envious, you reject your uniqueness. It's a criticism of God's plan for you.
Rick Warren
#65. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
Bertrand Russell
#66. The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
Breyten Breytenbach
#67. I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.
Renee Fleming
#68. I've got such an envious heart;
It sloshes and aches
when you touch her face,
and I don't know what to do with it,
other than to just
let
it
break.
Hayley Stumbo
#69. Do you think ... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?
Voltaire
#70. It is the habit of the envious man to absolve himself of public wrongs with his own personal grievances.
Victor Hugo
#71. Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Baruch Spinoza
#73. Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's.
Desiderius Erasmus
#74. While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future
Horace
#75. The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He wasn't covetous, he wasn't envious. But without money he was hardly a man.
Jonathan Franzen
#76. As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes Pinto
#77. I always felt that there was something different about me but I did not know what it was. I was socially awkward, friendship was difficult and I was envious of the way other people were able to interact. For
Stephen J. Bedard
#78. A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and our surroundings have a crucial effect on our consciousness. How important it is to be an instrument to bring out the inherent good of each other rather than the worst.
Radhanath Swami
#80. If you are living your life to the best of your ability, and pursuing your purpose, you will not be jealous, envious or try to place a stumbling block in the way of another person.
Dee Dee M. Scott
#81. I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.
Al Jourgensen
#82. Never surround yourself with people who are envious of your ambitions. Decide to be at the right place at the right time and save yourself for greater opportunities.
Israelmore Ayivor
#84. 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.
Henry Hazlitt
#85. Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#86. England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune.
William Shakespeare
#87. I would love to do a Western someday. Every time I watch any of them, I'm so envious.
Sarah Clarke
#88. You meet these people who are confident all the time. They annoy me. And I wonder if it's because I'm envious or if it's because they're shallow.
Guy Pearce
#89. Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.
William Shakespeare
#90. Envy and greed always - always - exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.
Billy Graham
#91. Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or wealth or both make largely others jealous and envious of him.
Anuj
#92. And I loved the girl precisely because she existed, and I was happy, not envious, that she existed.
Umberto Eco
#93. And envy, envious of a time when the poet, the mystic, the scientist and the statesman were nobler than the merchant.
Soroosh Shahrivar
#94. The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself
Helmut Schoeck
#95. How envious I am that the sun may kiss your porcelain skin and forever change how the world sees you.
Phar West Nagle
#96. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .
William Shakespeare
#97. There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children.
Johnny Hunt
#98. Based upon the tournament results and the formal propositions, four simple suggestions are offered for individual choice: do not be envious of the other player's success; do not be the first to defect; reciprocate both cooperation and defection; and do not be too clever.
Robert Axelrod
#99. She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action.
Henry James
#100. Today was also The Grass is Always Browner on the Other Side Day - a day to celebrate what you have, and not to be envious of others.
George Mahood
