Quotes about Envy

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

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.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

I hope we can be happy where we are, be grateful for our blessings-now-here, accept the challenge that is ours and make the most of it, and don't be envious of others. God help us to be grateful.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you?

Undine's white and gold bedroom, with sea-green panels and old rose carpet, looked along Seventy-second Street toward the leafless tree-tops of the Central Park. She went to the window, and drawing back its many layers of lace gazed eastward down the long brownstone perspective. Beyond the Park lay Fifth Avenue—and Fifth Avenue was where she wanted to be!

She knew that Virginia's survey of the world was limited to people, the clothes they wore, and the carriages they drove in. Her own universe was so crammed to bursting with wonderful sights and sounds that, in spite of her sense of Virginia's superiority - her beauty, her ease, her confidence - Nan sometimes felt a shamefaced pity for her.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.