#envious

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

— Howard Hodgkin

#artists #envious #few #good #i

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

— Horace

#grows #his #lean #man #neighbor

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#feel #good #good work #jealous #make

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

— Antisthenes

#away #consumed #eaten #envious #iron

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. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

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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

#bunch #envious #free #free time #hiatus

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

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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

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To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance. ↗

— Criss Jami

#envious #envy #excellence #greatness #jealous

Once she was standing by her locker and her puka shells broke and scattered and she made a joke about it but he could tell she was upset. He wanted to buy her some more. He wanted to give her a million strands of little nesting polished shells, and tropical flowers and ice creams and lemonades and a pale blue surfboard to teach her to surf on and anything else she wanted. Instead he let his checkered Vans step on one of the rolling shells and crush it. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#envy #jealous #jealousy #jealousy