26 Metaphors for envies

" "Pride," said Imlac, "is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others.

And envy is always envy, Though called by a foreign name, And perfidy, greed, and malice Are everywhere the same.

Envy and cavil are the natural fruits of laziness and ignorance; which was probably the reason that in the heathen mythology Momus is said to be the son of Nox and Somnus, of darkness and sleep.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

The utmost reach of her providence is the fatness of a capon, and her greatest envy is the next gentlewoman's better gown.

For to speak in a word, envy is nought else but Tristitia de bonis alienis, sorrow for other men's good, be it present, past, or to come: et gaudium de adversis, and joy at their harms, opposite to mercy, which grieves at other men's mischances, and misaffects the body in another kind; so Damascen defines it, lib.

As envy is a mere sign of deficiency, so to envy merit argues the lack of it.

For to speak in a word, envy is nought else but Tristitia de bonis alienis, sorrow for other men's good, be it present, past, or to come: et gaudium de adversis, and joy at their harms, opposite to mercy, which grieves at other men's mischances, and misaffects the body in another kind; so Damascen defines it, lib.

Blowsthat is, beating with a solid cudgelhe does not get in every age, as in the Homeric one; but his envy, his egotism, is the thorn which he has to carry in his flesh; and the undying worm that gnaws him is the tormenting consideration that his excellent views and vituperations remain absolutely without result in the world.

He would not have been thus tactful and gentlemanly had he not realized that Dory meant the best in the world, and was wholly unconscious that envy was his real reason for taking on such a preposterous pose.

Sheer envy!" was the retort.

Cosimo de' Medici, having said that "envy is a plant no man should water," denied himself the monumental house designed by Brunelleschi, and chose instead the modest plan of Michellozzo.

" [Footnote 68: "Envy and greed are the two powerful levers by which the Social Democrats are endeavouring to lift the world off its hinges.

Envy is a feeling of ill-will to those who are in the same line as ourselves, a spirit of covetousness and detraction.

all the spies that are," says Mr. Owen Feltham, "envy is the most observant and prying.

"Envy is the toll that is always paid to greatness.

Envy and malice are two links of this chain, and both, as Guianerius, Tract.

Envy is almost the only vice which is practicable at all times, and in every place; the only passion which can never lie quiet for want of irritation: its effects therefore are every where discoverable, and its attempts always to be dreaded.

Envy and Cavil are the natural Fruits of Laziness and Ignorance; which was probably the Reason, that in the Heathen Mythology Momus is said to be the Son of Nox and Somnus, of Darkness and Sleep.

Those who relied on the refutation of this theory forgot that with poor and suffering men who look to no future, and acknowledge no law but such as is created by their own capricious will and pleasure, envy is even a more powerful passion than greed.

Envy and ill-will were their motives, but they lacked the right measure for Germany's greatness.

Envy is, indeed, a stubborn weed of the mind, and seldom yields to the culture of philosophy.

This is why the envy which personal qualities excite is the most implacable of all,as it is also the most carefully dissembled.

He may be allowed also to disclaim an opinion too generally prevalent; namely, that envy and detraction are the natural offspring of the art.

Envy, after all, is the death of love!

26 Metaphors for  envies