Envious famous quotes

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.
-- Alexander Lowen

#Levels #Want #Envious

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Envy #Rich #Envious

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

#Envy #Virtue #Envious

I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.
-- Chris Pine

#Eyebrows #Faces #Envious

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

#Kindness #Men #Envious

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
-- Horace

#Men #Envious #Fatness

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

#Artist #Portraits #Envious

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

#Imitation #Envious

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

#Envy #Envious #Harm

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

#Envious #Wanted

I know that I have a lot of friends who are envious of me. But if there is something to be gained, obviously something else has to be lost, right? Lately I miss the things I’ve lost.
-- Minzy

#Missing #Lots Of Friends #Envious

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

#Live Life #Saws #Envious

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Jealous #Good Work #Envious

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

#Years #Envious #Revival

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

#Philosophical #Neighbor #Envious

...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.
-- Sonja Lyubomirsky

#Gratitude #Lonely #Envious

The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that you can say well yes, all right, if there is going to be god or gods then you have to admit that they're very at the very least capricious. They're certainly not consistent. They're certainly not all loving.
-- Stephen Fry

#Greek #Envious #Divine

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.
-- T. S. Eliot

#Envy #People #Envious

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.
-- Young Jeezy

#Want #Problem #Envious

When I see other rappers' lyrics of "I don't do what I don't like to do", I feel like it's really cool and there's also an envious side to me about it.
-- Kim Nam-joon

#Rapper #Sides #Envious

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

#Envious #Okay #Persons

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

#Satisfaction #Envious #Has Beens

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.
-- William Petty

#Evil #World #Envious