| Author |
Quotes |
| Aeschylus | It is in the character if very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Our envy of others devours us most of all. |
| Alexander Pope | Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. |
| Alexander Pope | Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. |
| Antisthenes | As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. |
| Antisthenes | As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. |
| Arthur Chapman | Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves. |
| Anonymous | The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy. |
| Alexander Pope | Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. |
| Alexander Pope | Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. |
| Charles Churchill | With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. |
| Christopher Marlowe | I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. |
| Claudian | Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. |
| George Herbert | Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. |
| Henry Fielding | Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. |
| Henry Fielding | Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. |
| Herodotus | How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. |
| Herodotus | How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. |
| Hesiod | The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. |
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