Quotes about Envy

I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.

Money brings jealousy and bitterness.

Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive what I deserve. It always manifests itself in envy.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too—maybe even yours.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

As I writhed under it, I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing. It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy. It opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out. In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity.

You think I didn't hate their pity, their forced kindness? And knowing that no matter what I did, how virtuous I was, or hardworking, I would never be beautiful. Not like her, the one who merely had to sit there to be adored. You wonder why I stabbed the blue eyes of my dolls with pins and pulled their hair out until they were bald? Life isn't fair. Why should I be?

Stupid people usually can't bear it when others do something better than they do ...

Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

there are always people who can't forgive an able man for differing from them.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.