Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame, that nobody ever had the confidence to own it. Rochester.

Envy is ignorance. Emerson. 65

Envy is littleness of soul. Hazlitt.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred. La Roche.

Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate. Epictetus.

Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism. Hazlitt.

Envy is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul. H. Ballou.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock. J. Beaumont.

Envy ne'er does a gude turn but when it means an ill ane. Sc. Pr.

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, / But, like a shadow, proves the substance true. Pope.