Envious Quotes

• An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.

  

  Socrates
  • Man
  • Pride
  • Revenge

• I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film – now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • World
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.

  

  Jack McCollough
  • Time
  • Free
  • Actors

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

  

  Antisthenes
  • Passion
  • Envious
  • Rust

• The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Persons
  • Capability
  • Confirmation

• I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Kind
  • Longing
  • Awe

• 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. . . .

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Moon
  • Sick

• For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Ocean
  • Wave
  • Wilderness

• I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • People
  • Press
  • 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
  • Divine
  • Consistent

• Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Night
  • Mountain
  • Candle

• 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
  • World
  • Evil
  • Envious

• Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Brother
  • Sweet
  • Made

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

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Generation

• I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Rich
  • Hell
  • Knowing

• England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • England
  • Beats
  • Triumphant

• An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fever
  • Pale
  • Emulation

• Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

  

  Larry Rivers
  • Jealous
  • Painters
  • Envious

• Those who object to wit are envious of it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Wit
  • Objects
  • Envious

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

  

  Socrates
  • Person
  • Grows
  • Neighbor

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

  

  Jack Roy
  • Age
  • Wind
  • Envious

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

  

  Evan Esar
  • Mark
  • Envious
  • Erasers

• I'm not envious of many things in the world, but I wish I would have come up with that maneuver That is a perfect way to finish off an opponent.

  

  William Regal
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Opponents

• When I was in high school, I was always really envious of those girls who seemed to have everything: the perfect hair, perfect clothes, perfect boyfriend, perfect life. It wasn't until I was older that I realized that nobody's life is perfect, and that those girls probably had a lot of the same problems I did.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Life
  • School
  • Girl

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