In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good - fortune.
It is only at the tree loaded with fruit that the people throw stones.
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
