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With that malignant envy which turns pale,
And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: The Rosciad (l. 127)
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Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.
[Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi
Nulla potest placare quies.]
Author: Claudian (Claudianus)
Source: De Raptu Proserpinoe (III, 290)
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Envy's a sharper spur than pay:
No author ever spar'd a brother;
Wits are gamecocks to one another.
Author: John Gay
Source: Fables-The Elephant and the Bookseller (pt. I, fable 10, l. 74)
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise.
For envy is a kind of praise.
Author: John Gay
Source: The Hound and the Huntsman
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But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage
A woman's envy?
Author: George Granville, Lord Landsdowne
Source: Progress of Beauty
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby
Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
Author: George Herbert
Source: The Church--Church Porch (st. 44)
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
Author: Herodotus ("Father of History")
Source: Thalia
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The artist envies what the arties gains,
The bard the rival bard's successful strains.
Author: Hesiod
Source: Works and Days (bk. I, l. 43)
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The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than
envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
[Lat., Invidus alterius marescit rebus opimis;
Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni
Majus tormentus.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Epistles (I, 2, 57)
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If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be
regarded as envious and ill-natured?
[Lat., Ego si risi quod ineptus
Pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum, lividus et mordax
videar?]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Satires (I, 4, 91)
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Envy! eldest-born of hell!
Author: Charles Jennens of Gopsall
Source: also ascribed to Newburgh Hamilton
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Envy, like fire, soars upward.
[Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.]
Author: Titus Livy
Source: Annales (VIII, 31)
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.
[Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.]
Author: Titus Livy
Source: Annales (XXXVIII, 49)
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I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
Author: Christopher Marlowe
Source: Doctor Faustus
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The envious will die, but envy never.
[Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
Author: Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
Source: Tartuffe (V, 3)
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Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.
[Lat., Pascitur in vivis livor; post fata quiescit.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Amorum (I, 15, 39)
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Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest
peaks.
[Lat., Summa petit livor: perflant altissima venti.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Remedia Amoris (CCCLXIX)
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Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.
[Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Remedia Amoris (CCCLXV)
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue,
But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 266)
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave,
Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 191)
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Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under
the influence of the evil eye.
[Lat., L'invidia, figliuol mio, se stessa macera,
E si dilegua come agnel per fascino.]
Author: Jacopo Sannazaro (Sannazarius)
Source: Ecloga Sesta
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It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as
little dogs do at strangers.
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Of a Happy Life (ch. XIX)
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The general's disdained
By him one step below, he by the next,
The next by him beneath; so every step,
Exampled by the first pace that is sick
Of his superior, grows to an envious fever
Of pale and bloodless emulation:
And 'tis this fever that keeps Troy on foot,
Not her own sinews.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at I, iii)
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Such men as he be never at heart's ease
Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,
And therefore are they very dangerous.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Julius Caesar (Caesar at I, ii)
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My mind gave me,
In seeking tales and informations
Against this man, whose honesty the devil
And his disciples only envy at,
Ye blew the fire that burns ye: now have at ye!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Cromwell at V, iii)
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We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves
And spend our flatteries to drink those men
Upon whose age we void it up again
With poisonous spite and envy.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Apemantus at I, ii)
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Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,
Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can--
No, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness
Of thy sharp envy.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at IV, i)
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Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou her maid art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid, since she is envious.
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at II, ii)
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Base envy withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
Author: James Thomson (1)
Source: Seasons--Spring (l. 28)
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All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
Author: William Hogarth
Source: None
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
Author: Henry Fielding
Source: None
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Envy is honors foe.
Author: Motto
Source: None
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Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.
Author: Ralph Harper
Source: None
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Author: Antisthenes
Source: None
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
Author: Herodotus
Source: None
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