Envious Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

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

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

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

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

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

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

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.

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