We never envy another’s achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.

I assume you are the sort of person who would go backstage after the opera in hopes of hearing the prima donna crying on the telephone, or walking in on the baritone fellating the basso...

Ultimate prosperity is one’s value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his...

Sweat,” and it’s hard work making it. But I can tell people love it, because they’re so envious and jealous when I wear it that they avoid me altogether.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of...

The deal would create an extremely powerful group with both mega-store and warehouse formats that should be the envy of the world.

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.Where in is the cause for anger,...

Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrafices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Don’t invite envy to your house – you never know who will show up,” she used to warn me.

they hate you when your up but they love you when your down that’s why i never give a soul my last pound

Some people suffer from the green-eyed monster called envy.

You can’t be envious and happy at the same time

When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were ‘somebody’.

They had paused before the table on which the bride’s jewel were displayed, and Lily’s heart gave an envious throb as she caught the refraction of light from their surfaces – the milky gleam of...

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

Envy won’t make you a better poet.

Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don’t think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.

Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

Nothing sharpens sight like envy.

Congratulations is the civility of envy.

If you are stealing people’s thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can’t expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans...

The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the...

[He says:] I don’t miss the game at all and certainly didn’t envy the England lads sitting around in a hotel all last week. Most of the time, you’re bored out of your head. I...

I know you don’t think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture,...

Rena noticed me watching it pass. ‘You think they don’t got problem?’ Rena said. ‘Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.’ She smiled, baring the part between her two...

… the serpent hissing between the lips of Envy is so huge, and so completely fills her wide-opened mouth that the muscles of her face are strained and contorted,…

The grass is yellow on both sides, envy turning on of them green.

Envy is a buzz killer.”~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are.

Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by the body as a free pathogen to infect the consciousness with stray sentiments?...

Envy and respect are not the same things…Before I endow you with respect, I should find out whether your curiosity is intellectual or merely morbid. Not that those who gawk at train derailments are so...

{Bjørnson on the great Colonel Robert Ingersoll, whom he translated into Norwegian}I am very sorry that, when I was in America, I did not have the opportunity to grasp the hand of a man who,...

If love were a color, it would be green. At least for me. But her love is blue, and she’s too cool to see that my envy is just amped up jealousness, and a display...

The age of lost innocence varies for each person. Some lose it when they learn that their childhood fantasies are merely myth, while others lose theirs due to trauma. As adults, we often look down...

The fenced-in dog barks at the one running free.

When you’re working, some people relax and wait for the invisible right time, but when they see your fortune, they wake up and strategize an envious attack.

I once had a complete life – in love, in envy, in pains. Now, I was living a death. A peaceful, gorgeous, liberating death.

Jealousy is not there to encourage you to make someone fail, but there to encourage one to do more than the one they envy.

I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts–and they never fail to have a fatal effect on my self-esteem. When I find myself sitting at...

M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: “He was selfish and supercilious. He had read so much that he had left his heart in other people’s books, and all that...

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

It’s always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics’ ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they’ll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.

I envy these people. Wide-open suffering, their messes all hanging out. Lives boiled down to raw need–a near-holiness to it. And all of us driving our cars up and down the mountain–we’ll go on forever...

Reassuring a jealous woman that you don’t want her man creates the bigger beast of resentment because that tells her that what she has isn’t desirable and to her, where the opinions of others correlates...

There is no good envy, except the one that motivates us to reach higher goals and be better than the person we were yesterday.

You just know something is amiss, when you look at someone and long for something that is not yours or you cannot have. It’s an absence–a loss of a heartbeat.

Do not develop jealousy, hatred or envy on any count.

He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.