Envious Quotes

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing - Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say 'forget.

I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

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

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

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.

Anytime you feel jealous or envious, you reject your uniqueness. It's a criticism of God's plan for you.

You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn.

Those who object to wit are envious of it.

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.

The silence of the envious is too noisy.

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.

I'm not envious of many things in the world, but I wish I would have come up with that maneuver That is a perfect way to finish off an opponent.

Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.

Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.

Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?

England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]

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.

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

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.

At my age I'm envious of a stiff wind.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

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.

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

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

Im always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.

It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.

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

Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

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.

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

I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me.

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.