Envy
The second segment, "Envy", is written by Dave Freeman. Stanley (Secombe) and his wife Vera (Cryan) are winners of the football pools and are looking to buy a huge house. His wife spots one and decides she must have it.
The owners (Bayldon and Whitfield) enjoy a quiet life there and do not wish to sell. So Secombe's character decides to employ a series of schemes to force the owners of the house to sell their home so that they can buy it; one of these schemes involves creating a mock edition of the local newspaper that purports to tell the story of a new motorway that will go straight through their garden.
The owners sell to Secombe and wife. As they move in a mechanical digger is seen coming towards the house as it turns out the 'story' is actually true.
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Famous quotes containing the word envy:
“I envy not only their talents
And fertile lack of balance
But the appearance of choice
In their sad and fatal voice.”
—Roy Fuller (b. 1912)
“Power corrupts ... when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before. The will to power ... far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“Do not envy the violent and do not choose any of their ways...”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 3:31.