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| A man envies every other man except his son and his pupil. Hebrew. | 1 |
| A quarrel in a neighbor’s house is refreshing. i.e., to envious persons. Tamil. | 2 |
| After honor and state, follow envy and hate. Dutch. | 3 |
| All envy is between neighbors. German. | 4 |
| An envious man is a squint-eyed fool. | 5 |
| An envious man waxes lean with the fatness of his neighbor. | 6 |
| As a moth gnaws a garment, so does envy consume a man. Chrysostomus. | 7 |
| As love thinks no evil, so envy thinks no good. | 8 |
| As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man. Anisthenes. | 9 |
| Bad eyes never see any good. | 10 |
Base envy withers at another’s joy,
And hates the excellence it cannot reach. Thomson. | 11 |
| Better the envy of enemies than the pity of friends. German. | 12 |
| Envy always pursues the fortunate and meritorious. Arabian. | 13 |
| Envy assails the noblest, the winds howl around the highest peaks. Arabian. | 14 |
| Envy and covetousness are never satisfied. | 15 |
| Envy beats itself. German. | 16 |
| Envy crieth of spite where honor rideth. Dutch. | 17 |
| Envy does not enter an empty house. Danish. | 18 |
| Envy doth merit like its shade pursue. Aristophanes. | 19 |
| Envy envies itself. German. | 20 |
| Envy feeds on the living, it ceases when they are dead. Ovid. | 21 |
| Envy follows good fortune. German. | 22 |
| Envy goes beyond avarice. French. | 23 |
| Envy has made no man rich. German. | 24 |
| Envy is a kind of praise. Gay. | 25 |
| Envy is an awkward homage that inferiority pays to merit. La Motte. | 26 |
| Envy is blind and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others. Livy. | 27 |
| Envy is its own torture. Danish. | 28 |
| Envy is productive of hatred, and pity borders on contempt. Gibbon. | 29 |
| Envy is the mean man’s gratitude. Bulwer. | 30 |
| Envy is the sorrow of fools. German. | 31 |
| Envy is the worst disease. German. | 32 |
| Envy like fire soars upward. Livy. | 33 |
| Envy makes sorrow. German. | 34 |
Envy which turns pale,
And sickens even if a friend prevail. Churchill. | 35 |
| Envy never has a holiday. Latin. | 36 |
| Envy never yet enriched any man. | 37 |
| Envy no man. | 38 |
Envy not the store
Of the greatest man that grinds the poor. Dryden. | 39 |
| Envy sets the stronger seal on desert. Ben Jonson. | 40 |
| Envy shoots at others and wounds herself. | 41 |
| Envy—the dyspepsia of the mind. Punch. | 42 |
| Envy was never a good spokesman. | 43 |
| Envy will be a science when it learns the use of the microscope. Bulwer. | 44 |
| He who envies, suffers. German. | 45 |
| He who envies us admits his inferiority. Latin. | 46 |
| If envy were a fever all the world would be ill. Danish. | 47 |
| Many owe their fortunes to their enviers. | 48 |
| No one lives who does not envy. German. | 49 |
| Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. | 50 |
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| Nothing sharpens sight like envy. | 51 |
| The envious hurts others something, but himself more. | 52 |
| The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbors. Horace. | 53 |
| The envious man’s face grows sharp and his eyes big. Spanish, Portuguese. | 54 |
| The envious man, who sends away his mutton because the person next him is eating venison. Punch. | 55 |
| The envious die, but envy never. French. | 56 |
| The fortunate or the brave can afford to laugh at envy. Publius Syrus. | 57 |
| The greatest mischief you can do to the envious is to do well. | 58 |
| The over envious are not over wise. Massinger. | 59 |
| The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy. Juvenal. | 60 |
| The smoke (envy) follows the fairest. | 61 |
| There are some who see ill and would like to see worse. Italian. | 62 |
| Those that are advanced by degrees are less envied than those that are advanced suddenly. Bacon. | 63 |
| Those who raise envy will easily incur censure. Dr. Johnson. | 64 |
| Two things ought to be the object of our fear, the envy of our friends and the hatred of our enemies. Bias. | 65 |
| When fortune’s chariot rolls easily, envy and shame cling to the wheels. Danish. | 66 |
With fame in just proportion envy grows,
The man that makes a character makes foes. Young. | 67 |
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