Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.

There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.

Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.

I closed my eyes and rested my head against his chest, wishing sincerely that Rhiannon would get hit by a bus.

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

Envy grew like a cancer, deep and invasive.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

I never resented anybody for being successful.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

Carrying envy makes life more difficult.

The hater always suffers more than the object of his hatred.

Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.

Bitterness kills the soul.

No one would deny that feeling envy is unpleasant, or that feeling envious sometimes leads us down a path we wish we hadn't taken. Envy is frequently corrosive and destructive.