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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.
I'm proud by not being frustrated, jealous or too confused by remaining creative. It's very easy to give up, and to keep going and sticking to your own ethos is very difficult.
The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.
Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or wealth or both make largely others jealous and envious of him.
I was always so jealous of a band like Fleetwood Mac, for instance, where Christine McVie would sing a whole bunch of songs even though Stevie was the obvious lead singer. It added variety to their shows.
I don't have to be jealous of Barcelona because they have 100 years of history and have won the European Cup once. I have only been managing for five years and I have the same amount of Champions League trophies to my name.
There are people who envy you and don't want to see you succeed, but there are also people who pray for your success.
Complainin' to my lawyer how this rookie tried to frisk me...
Jealous of my jeep, I gave his badge to the chief,
And got his ass directin' traffic in the heat for a week.
Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.
Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.
Can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor... though it felt like something I couldn't do until I grew up. I mean, I knew kids could be actors - I recall seeing them on my dad's shoots and getting jealous.
The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.
I'm emotionless, yet I breathe jealousy and envy
People kill for me or die to defend me
My wife told me one of the sweetest things one could hear: 'I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for all the actresses who embrace you and kiss you while acting, for with them, you are only pretending.'
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.
More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.
I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.[Muste], for example.
I think I would envy me too, if I didn't know me better.
'Tis not to make me jealous
To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well;
Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
I'm a frustrated driver. I would love to be out on the track instead of them. I look at them with envy.
There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is still the envy of less happy lands.
If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.
The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.
Don't be intimidated by people who try to belittle your ambitions. Most of the time they are just jealous of your success or determination to reach the highest peaks of the mountains, and reign over them.
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.
You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.
Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.
Society, they look down on teenage moms and dads, but I think those people are just jealous because they'll never know what it's like to be raised by someone who's still being raised.
The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change.
NBC's a little jealous of CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer. They want to get a reporter with a macho-sounding name too, so they're changing Irving R. Levine's name to Scud Shrapnel.
One of my favorite things about America is our breathtaking collection of national and state parks, many of which boast wonders the Psalmist would envy.
All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.
The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.
Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
The race we are really in is the race against sin, and surely envy is one of the most universal of those.
Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.
To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.
I envy Muslims their practice of regular and genuine prayer. It's a beautiful practice that enriches their daily lives.
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others
But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.
The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.
There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.
One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.
If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema and Ahimsa as the cleaning instruments.
Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.
Finn regarded pesky little things like wedding bands, engagement rings, and jealous, hulking menfolk more as amusing challenges than immovable obstacles that could be hazardous to his health.
