“The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself”
Helmut Schoeck
“Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied”
Mark Twain
“I don't envy the driver and I don't think the American people will care to ride in his bus very far.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.”
Yeardley Smith
“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
“I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other's good”
William Shakespeare
“Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?”
Ronald Duncan