Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Envy aims very high.

I think it's impossible not to see something you wanted happen to someone else and maybe wish it for yourself.

There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to bitterly want what they can't have and ungratefully not want what is readily available to them.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

Envy is human nature.

Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of land, a kingdom, a lordship, a contract, a ship, an egg -- it hardly matters the which or the what, as soon as it is seen to be desired by one, another will make a prize of it.

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

I think envy motivates a lot of people.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.

No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

There are a lot of jealous people out there who would do anything to get this case into their jurisdiction.

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Allah never gave such as this to any people without that giving rise to mutual envy and hatred.

To an extent, everyone is jealous of everyone.

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.