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Letter "E" » Envy
"With that malignant envy which turns pale,
And sickens, even if a friend prevail."
Author: Charles Churchill
About: Envy
"Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.
[Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi
Nulla potest placare quies.]"
Author: Claudian (Claudianus)
About: Envy
"Envy's a sharper spur than pay:
No author ever spar'd a brother;
Wits are gamecocks to one another."
Author: John Gay
About: Envy
"Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise.
For envy is a kind of praise."
Author: John Gay
About: Envy
"But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage
A woman's envy?"
Author: George Granville, Lord Landsdowne
About: Envy
"Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby
Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater."
Author: George Herbert
About: Envy
"It is better to be envied than pitied."
Author: Herodotus ("Father of History")
About: Envy
"The artist envies what the arties gains,
The bard the rival bard's successful strains."
Author: Hesiod
About: Envy
"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)
About: Envy
"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)
About: Envy
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