Envious Quotations

As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.

I am beginning to have more powerful enemies and more envious ones, too.

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.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

When I would see my friends with their kids, I was envious that you can use children to get out of just about anything. If you don't feel like going to a dinner party, you could say, 'My kid's sick. I can't make it.' Who's gonna argue with you?

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

I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.

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.

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

Look, there are a lot of people who are envious of the position that I'm in right now. I'm glad to be here and if I don't get the chance to play, that's fine with me. I'm just enjoying the experience.

I was so envious of everyone who went to Sylvia Young Theatre School. I wanted to go, but my dad flat-out refused. He thought I'd become some tapdancing freak without qualifications. And he was right in a way. I'm glad I didn't go. That might have changed.

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.

I'm 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.

Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked: / For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

I think a lot of coaches are envious to be in that situation.

Someone receives a promotion, gets an important assignment, makes a major discovery, or moves into the president's office. ''He's lucky',' an envious person remarks. ''He gets the breaks; they're always in his favor'.' In reality, luck or the breaks of life had little or nothing to do with it. So-called ''luck'' usually is found at the exact point where preparation meets opportunity. For a time, an individual may get ahead by ''pull',' but eventually someone with push will displace him. Success is not due to a fortuitous concourse of stars at our birth, but to a steady trail of sparks from the grindstone of hard work each day.

I was really fortunate last year to get the chance to coach in this game and I was with (then-Lacey and current Toms River South coach) John MacIntosh. I was envious that John got the chance to coach his son (Chris). I didn't think that I would ever get that chance.

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.

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.

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

We all listen to the same music; we all came from the same place, standing on the shoulders of the same giants. I'd be willing to bet that The Rolling Stones are more envious of our lifestyle, living here in Kentucky, playing loads of different Americana music. That's what they were going for. We're closer to the source than they are, really. I think they would love to come down and stay in Covington with us and stay up until 5 in the morning, playing guitar and singing Townes Van Zandt songs and Leadbelly songs. It'd be right up their alley. It's no mistake that we have the same kind of thing going on.

The suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious; the liar feels secure in the thought that he is not so foolish as to believe that there is such a phenomenon as a strictly truthful person; the envious see envy in every soul; the miser thinks everybody is eager to get his money;...and the abandoned sensualist looks upon the saint as a hypocrite

Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.

And the brute crowd, whose envious zeal Huzzas each turn of fortune's wheel, And loudest shouts when lowest lie Exalted worth and station high

They are lucky to be as tall as they are, and I am a little bit envious of them. It's tiring playing against those girls.

Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes,Desirous still, still impotent to rise.

Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes, Desirous still, still impotent to rise.

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.

I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline.

I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.

In the NBA, it?s a little different. It?s more of a job. I?m sure some NBA players -- I know myself -- are a little envious of just the feeling of it all. It?s a great feeling watching those players, the way they feel -- the feeling that comes out when they lose a game, the feeling that comes out when they win a game. It?s a great thing to watch.

California could become the global center for stem cell research with that kind of investment and the talent that's there. But within Harvard alone, we have as many outstanding scientists as arguably all of California. I think many of us are envious of the resources in California, but we're doing our best to organize and effort around somewhat more modest funding.

By 8 a.m., ... there are usually two vendors out here, and an envious woman in the corner. If you have good food, business is good.

He told us he was envious of us, that he missed it and would like to be with us. That he was with us in spirit, but would have liked to have been in the sled with us.

I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

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

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

I feel a bit like Ellen Glasgow (I think it was) who said that she was the master and characters did what she said. I'm envious of authors whose characters become so real to them that they take off in their own directions, but my philosophy of teaching, as well as writing, is to demystify the process.

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

The envious will die, but envy never.

Live the Life you'd be envious of if you saw someone else living it.

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

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.

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

...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.

The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that you can say well yes, all right, if there is going to be god or gods then you have to admit that they're very at the very least capricious. They're certainly not consistent. They're certainly not all loving.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

Those who object to wit are envious of it.

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

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.

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

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

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

You will not like me. The gentlemen will be envious and the ladies will be appalled.

The silence of the envious is too noisy.

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

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

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.