Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
Envy is the religion of the mediocre
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.
Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.
Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.
Envy is a kind of praise.
Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.
Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.
What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The difference may be of degrees, but it is not of quality, it is only of quantity. Envy can become jealousy at any moment; envy is just jealousy in progress. Mind has to drop all envies and jealousies.
It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.
Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.
Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
