The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. – Richard Le Gallienne

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. – Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller