Hosea Ballou Quotes

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

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

Bitterness kills the soul.

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

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

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

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

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

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

What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

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

I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

Envy is a deadly sin!