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.
Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.
The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.
There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children.
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.
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness;. . . they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.
I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know. ) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me.
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.
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.
Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.
A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and our surroundings have a crucial effect on our consciousness. How important it is to be an instrument to bring out the inherent good of each other rather than the worst.
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.
Those who are broad-minded and considerate are like the spring breeze, warm and nurturing, at show touch all being grow. Those who are envious an d cruel are like the snow of the northlands, stilling and freezing, at whose touch all beings die.
It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become.
I mean, that is a mop of real hair. He has hair like a 15-year-old. . . and so, I have to acknowledge I am a little envious of his hair.
England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.
That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.
To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.