Philip James Bailey Quotes

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

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

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

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

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

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!

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

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

Allah never gave such as this to any people without that giving rise to mutual envy and hatred.

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

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

Jealousy is a hell of a thing. There's a reason it's one of the deadly sins.

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

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

Envy is a deadly sin!

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

I think some of the people on the Left... were extremely jealous of me getting what they thought was all of the attention.

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.