Nothing sharpens sight like envy.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

Our envy always lasts much longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.