George Orwell Quotes

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

Envy awakens at the sound of a distant laugh.

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

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

Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.

Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

Envy bestrides praise.

Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.