Envy Quotes

Whether couched in terms of envy, admiration, or derision, celebrity fascination begins as an exercise in imagining what it would be like to lead a more carefree and pleasurable life.

Jacob Weisberg
- Life
- Exercise
- Celebrity
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- God
- Truth
- Satan

The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.

Lisa Unger
- Woman
- Naive
- Hopelessly
There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.

Jim Jeffords
- World
- Important
- Future
It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.

W. Somerset Maugham
- Life
- Up
- Good
It was tragic every single time my mom told me we were moving. I would always envy my friends who had grown up in the same house their entire life, and they had markings on the wall of 'me at five years old' and all that. It made me so sad. I wished I'd had that.

Camila Mendes
- Life
- Up
- Time
It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothes not you.

Marilyn Monroe
- People
- Nature
- Hurt
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Josh Billings