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Envy: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.— ISAAC DISRAELI — Literary Character. Ch. XII. Last lines.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.— EMERSON — Essay. On Circles. Last
Par. His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short.— Shakespeare — Richard II. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 33.
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.— JOHN STERLING — Essays and Tales.
Crystals from a Cavern. Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.— BISHOP WARBURTON — Divine Legation. Bk. V. App.
With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.— CHURCHILL — The Rosciad. L. 127.
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother.— GAY — Fables. Pt. I. Fable 10.
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.— GAY — The Hound and the Huntsman.
But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage A woman's envy? GEO. GRANVILLE (Lord Lansdowne)— Progress of Beauty
Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.— HERBERT — The Church. Church Porch. St. 44.
The artist envies what the artist gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.— HESIOD — Works and Days. Bk. I. L. 43.
I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.— G. P. R. JAMES — The Monks of Old.
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. II. L. 191.
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow proves the substance true.— POPE — Essay on Criticism. Pt. II. L. 266.
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. C.— SENECA — Of a Happy Life. Ch. XIX.
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.— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 4.
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.— Shakespeare — Henry VIII. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 110.
No metal can, No, not the hangman's axe, bear half the keenness Of thy sharp envy.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 124.
Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves: And therefore are they very dangerous. Julius Cæsar. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 208. The general's disdain'd By him one step below; he by the next; That 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.— Shakespeare — Troilus and Cressida. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 129.
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.— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 141.
Base Envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.— THOMSON — The Seasons. Spring. L. 28.
Abiturus illuc priores abierunt, Quid mente cæca torques spiritum? Tibi dico, avare. Since you go where all have gone before, why do you torment your disgraceful life with such mean ambitions, O miser?— PHEDRUS — Fabulæ. IV. 19. 16.
Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati. That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.— PHEDRUS — Fabulæ. III. 11. 7.
Hominum immortalis est infamia; Etiam tum vivit, cum esse credas mortuam. Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.— PLAUTUS — Persa. III. 1. 27.
Rabiem livoris acerbi Nulla potest placare quies. Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.— CLAUDIANUS — De Raptu Proserpinæ.
III. 290. Ego si risi quod ineptus Pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum, lividus et mordax videar? If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured?— HORACE — Satiræ. I. 4. 91.
Invidus alterius marescit rebus opimis; Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni Majus tormentum. The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.— HORACE — Epistolæ. I. 2. 57.
S. A proximis quisque minime anteiri vult. No man likes to be surpassed by those of reprehensa proverbio est. his own level.— LIVY — Annales. XXXVIII. 49.
Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere. Envy, like fire, soars upward.— LIVY — Annales. VIII. 31.
Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri. Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.— OVID — Remedia Amoris. CCCLXV.
Pascitur in vivis livor; post fata quiescit. Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.— OVID — Amorum. I. 15. 39.
Summa petit livor: perflant altissima venti. Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.— OVID — Remedia Amoris. CCCLXIX.
Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie. The envious will die, but envy never.— MOLIÈRE — Le Tartuffe. V. 3.
L'invidia, figliuol mio, se stessa macera, E si dilegua come agnel per fascino. Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.— SANNAZARO — Ecloga Sesta.