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With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.

Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage A woman's envy?

Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured?

Envy! eldest-born of hell!

Envy, like fire, soars upward.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

The envious will die, but envy never.

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

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

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.