Top 277 Envious Quotes & Sayings

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

Those who object to wit are envious of it.

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.

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

The silence of the envious is too noisy.

Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I

For him in vain the envious seasons roll Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

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

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

I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

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

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

I am always so envious of people who do whatever they want.

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

I never got to know my grandparents, and I am envious of my friends who have a special relationship with theirs.

I've just started to get really envious when I go into people's houses and see books on a shelf.

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

I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.

Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.

I'm envious of writers.

Mammootty has everything from talent to looks. It's no secret that many are envious of him. And I know that if he is envious of anyone, it's me.

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

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

The envious will die, but envy never.

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

It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become.

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

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

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

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.

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

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

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

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

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

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

You must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two categories: the stupid, and the envious. The stupid will like you in five years time, the envious never.

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were!

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

I never understood the nudity thing. I’m so envious of people who can walk around naked.

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

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

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

I feel envious of people who have been connected to music throughout their lives.

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

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

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

The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

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

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

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