Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both. – Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads. – Dorothy Dix
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. – Mark Twain
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it. – François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. – Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. – Aeschylus
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. – Ovid
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded. – William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. – Paul Eldridge
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. – Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. – Havelock Ellis, On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue, 1937
Jealousy… is a mental cancer. – B.C. Forbes
Jealousy hyphenates love in all the wrong places. – Terri Guillemets
If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. – Danish Proverb
Envy slays itself by its own arrows. – Author Unknown
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. – Robert A. Heinlein
