Top 44 Envious Quotes

Looking at the way the game is played, I’m envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.

I’m always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

You’re going to find England, unfortunately, is a place where you get a lot of jealous, envious, you know, negative people. That’s how it is.

I am always so envious of people who do whatever they want.

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

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

You could have the thickest skin but Instagram and Twitter still affect you. It makes you envious, even if you’ve got everything you could ever want.

There have been a handful of assignments over the years that I’ve had to turn down due to time constraints, and I was fairly envious when I saw the finished product, beautifully illustrated by someone else.

It’s funny that I got to do ‘On the Road’ because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.

The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America’s interests.

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.

There are some amazing women’s football teams out there and it is good that they are being recognised. I was always terrible at football, so I am a little bit envious of their amazing skills.

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.

In France, I guess there’s something like a tyranny in mentalities – we accept success badly, beauty, money. People are certainly envious, and this creates negative energy. This is annoying. I suffered a great deal at one time. I had to fight harder than others. Add to that my marriage to Polanski.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

I’ve just started to get really envious when I go into people’s houses and see books on a shelf.

Your neighbors will be envious of your 3D printer – and if they’re not, just print new neighbors. Design them so they’ll like to bring you pies, maybe, or want to do your yard work for you.

I’m envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.

Guys always get jealous or envious of an opportunity, but they never wanna walk out to the mound and point to the crowd and tell them where they’re going to hit the ball. I will. I’ll call my shots.

I feel envious of people who have been connected to music throughout their lives.

But we’re born as children and we look at the world with open eyes… And we don’t judge and we don’t betray. We’re not jealous. We’re not envious. We’re not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.

I didn’t love my hair when I was a child. It was lighter than my skin, which made me not love it so much. I was really kind of envious of girls with thicker, longer, more lush hair.

I’ve always been envious of certainty, of people who always seemed to have a plan for their lives.

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.

Mammootty has everything from talent to looks. It’s no secret that many are envious of him. And I know that if he is envious of anyone, it’s me.

I used to be really envious of those kids who could do their homework and bring it in on time and were organised.

England is a fairly envious little country and it’s embodied in the press. They don’t like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

I don’t think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don’t think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we’re envious of them, and we put them up on that pedestal.

I was a kid when the Tamagotchi craze hit, and I was always envious of my friends and cousins who got to hand-rear their little digital babies.

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

Nixon did not anticipate the extent to which Kissinger, whom he barely knew when he appointed him national-security adviser in 1969, would be envious and high-strung – a maintenance project of the first order.

There are some people who, when they fall in love or feel envious, may easily feel rejected. Any real or perceived rejection could bring them to the edge of absurdity. Sometimes they even become liars.

Don’t waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it’ll make you bugnutty.

To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I’m amused by my children’s awe at quotidian things – a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I’m envious of their ability to attain something I often can’t: a state of transcendence induced by art.

Acting is a community where you come in and out of each other’s lives. I’m slightly envious of the Golden Age of Hollywood. It must have been frustrating to be owned by the studio, but it was also like being in a company, working with the same people, and that appeals to me.

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

I’m so envious of certain actors that have that natural facility to hear a cadence and the rhythm of an accent, that it goes into their brain and just comes out. Chameleon voices.

I get very envious of my general news colleagues who are always being handed sexy new stuff like global warming, China, and Donald Trump, while my sports colleagues and I must be eternally satisfied with the same old home-court advantage, soccer, and momentum.

Acting can be a difficult business. When I was younger, if my mates were doing better than me, I might be a little bit envious, but as I have got older, I love to see actors cracking on and succeeding. The same goes for writers.

I love to be busy. I’m envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it’s lingering Calvinist guilt?

I wouldn’t wear turtlenecks. That I’m not envious of. But who knows? I might sneak out a few things and hope and pray that no one says, ‘Hey, didn’t you wear that when you were playing an enormous geek on TV?’

I look at so many people’s feeds like, ‘God, your life is so cool. Like, I want to do that! Why don’t I get that?’ And I will get envious of someone’s life, and we don’t think about the fact that it’s completely – not fake, but it’s one single screenshot of just the good times.

One of my clearest, happiest memories is of myself at fourteen, sitting up in bed, being handed a large glass of warm buttermilk by my mother because I had a sore throat, and she saying how envious she was that I was reading ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ for the first time.