He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was…

The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

— Horace

“Nobody a writer ever loved is dead.”

— Richard Peck

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

— Horace

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

— Anonymous

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

— Ovid

There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.

— Groucho Marx

Each of them berated you, because they feared and envied you.

— Anonymous

Envy is not to be conquered but by death.

— Horace

There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so…

— Horace

The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who envied his…

— Edward Gibbon

There was a rivalry - and some pie-throwing. But that was probably because Gawker and Radar had more in common than they wanted to…

— Nick Denton

If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had…

— Pietro Metastasio

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us…

— Samuel Johnson

Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.

— Conrad Black