185 quotes found
“Jealousy was essentially "I want what you have," while envy was "I want what you have, but I also want to take it away so you can't have it.”
“Envy is a buzz killer."~R. Alan Woods [2013]”
“Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up.”
“Judgement is so often a thwarted, frustrated expression of envy.”
“Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the unde...”
“Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.”
“When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.”
“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
“Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.”
“Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.”
“When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy.”
“And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all th...”
“Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?”
“They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.”
“Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these t...”
“There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.”
“If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.”
“Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.”
“To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.”
“Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.”
