I’ve always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously. – Kate Christensen
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do. – Karl A. Menninger
Envy is never general, but always very particular – at least envy of the kind one feels strongly. – Joseph Epstein
I’d the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. – Joe Orton
I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn’t seem to take colour – there’s nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip. – Laura Mvula
Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had. – Paul Engle
I’m not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I’m not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on. – Rachel Weisz
Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away. – Rumi
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. – Oliver Stone
Music – not just the lyrics, but the music itself – expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them. – Sarah Churchwell
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy. – William Shenstone
I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn’t happen prematurely. – Tom Stoppard
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. – William Shenstone