The envious will die, but envy never. [ Moliere ]

An envious man is a squint-eyed fool. [ Proverb ]

Those who object to wit are envious of it. [ Hazlitt ]

Love, friendship, charity are subjects all
To envious and calumniating time. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]

Sloth views the towers of fame with envious eyes.
Desirous still, still impotent to rise. [ Shenstone ]

Great deeds immortal are - they cannot die,
Unscathed by envious blight or withering frost,
They live, and bud, and bloom; and men partake
Still of their freshness, and are strong thereby. [ Aytoun ]

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation. [ William Shakespeare ]

Critics on verse, as squibs on triumphs wait.
Proclaim their glory, and augment the state;
Hot, envious, noisy, proud, the scribbling fry
Burn, hiss, and bounce, waste paper, ink, and die. [ Young ]

The envious man's face grows sharp and his eyes big. [ Proverb ]

The envious hurt others something, but himself very much. [ Proverb ]

The greatest mischief you can do the envious is to do well. [ Proverb ]

An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. [ Socrates ]

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit. [ Hannah More ]

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself. [ Bishop Hall ]

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel, that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy. [ Voltaire ]

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms. [ Beaconsfield ]

Admiration is a forced tribute; and to extort it from mankind, envious and ignorant as they are, they must be taken unawares. [ James Northcote ]

Beauty, wit, high birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, love, friendship, charity, are subjects all to envious and calumniating time. [ William Shakespeare ]

For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it, - feel it, and hate in silence. [ Washington Allston ]

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away. Enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what tomorrow may produce. [ Horace ]

Consistent characters are those which in social intercourse are easy, sure, and gentle. We do not clash with them, and they are never wanting nor contradictory to themselves; their stability incites confidence, their frankness induces self-surrendering openness. We feel at ease with them, we are not offended at their superiority, doubtless we admire them less, but we also hardly dream of feeling envious of them, and they seem almost to disdain malignity by the peaceful influence of their presence. [ Degerando ]