“Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied”
Mark Twain
“If one tells you some things about another person, be aware that he will also tell another about you in the same manner.”
Maichee Summer
“God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as "moral indignation," which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue”
Erich Fromm
“If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.”
William Faulkner
“The Cincinnatus of the West, / Whom envy dared not hate, / Bequeathed the name of Washington, / To make man blush there was but one!”
Lord Byron