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| Avundas ingen ty du vet icke vad han bär på som du inte skulle vilja med vid bytet. | August Strindberg (1849-1912) |
| Avundsjuka är en förolämpning mot en själv. | Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-1992) |
| Den missunnsamme tror att han kan gå bättre om grannen bryter benet. | Helmut Schoeck |
| Liksom järn äts upp av rost förtärs den avundsjuke av sin svidande passion. | Antisthenes |
| Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores | Arthur Chapman |
| Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. | Harold Coffin |
| The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself | Helmut Schoeck |
| The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. | John Berger (1926-) |
| Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue | Titus Livy |
| When men are full of envy, they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad | Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) |
| Envy is an insult to oneself. | Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-1992) |
| You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely? | Karen Brademeyer |
| A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love. | Thomas C. Haliburton (1796-1865) |
| Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has. | Harold Coffin |
| Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. | Harold Coffin |
| Envy shoots at others and wounds itself | English Proverb |
| Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| You can't be envious and happy at the same time | Frank Tyger |
| Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good actions, like as fire eateth up and burneth wood | Muhammad Ali (1942-) |
| When men are full of envy, they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad | Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) |
| I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on. | Oscar Levant (1906-1972) |
| Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing. | Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) |
| Envy is a pain of mind that successful men cause their neighbors | John Berger (1926-) |
| The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. | John Berger (1926-) |
| Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Envy eats nothing but its own heart | German Proverb |
| There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those who believe by those who don’t believe. | Dennis Prager (1948-) |
| The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. | John Berger (1926-) |
| Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned. | Robert Lembke |
| As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. | Saint John Chrysostom |
| Nothing sharpens sight like envy | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue | Titus Livy |